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  <p>Now like they say use newuser as login. A program called newuser will start, 
    helping you creating an account.</p>
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<p><br>
  <b>Step 4. (Customising Keys)</b></p>
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  <p>After a bunch of crap, the newuser program will ask you to Customise keys. 
    It will be asked the delete key (^H) and the break key (^C). What is in brackets 
    are the default if you want you can choose any other. The ^H stands for the 
    delete key (the one that has the &lt;- symbol on it), and the ^C stands for 
    ctrl+c. Attention don't write ^H or ^C just press the keys, and that will 
    be the output.</p>
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<p><br>
  <b>Step 5. (Selecting Terminal Type)</b></p>
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  <p>After you customise the keys you'll be asked to enter your terminal type, 
    you can select ? and the program will print you all the terminals support 
    by it, but you should select vt100 or just press enter. Pressing enter the 
    program will assume that your terminal is a dumb terminal. There is no problem 
    to select the dumb terminal because you can change it later.</p>
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<p><br>
  <b>Step 6. (Personal Data)</b></p>
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  <p>It will be asked things like your full name, phone number, birth date, sex, 
    blablab, your getting the idea. If you want you can just put a . and press 
    enter. You can also give fake information, I think that 98% of the users at 
    nether.net did that. In the end of all the questions you'll be asked if you 
    want to hide the information from other users. Just say yes or no, I suggest 
    you to say yes.</p>
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<p><br>
  <b>Step 7. (Selecting Shell)</b></p>
<p>Now it will be shown a list with the legal shells, just select one, like I 
  said before if you are new to shell accounts choose bash shell.</p>
<p><br>
  <b>Step 8. (Selecting Login)</b></p>
<p>Just select your login, like always 8 chars is the max length.</p>
<p><br>
  <b>Step 9. (Selecting Password)</b></p>
<p>Select a password, it will be asked two times to see if the password is correct. 
  You can change the password later using the passwd command later.</p>
<p><b>Step 10. (Accepting Choices)</b></p>
<p>At this time you should be looking to something like:</p>
<table width="93%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
  <tr> 
    <td>full name:</td>
    <td>Full Name</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>loginid: your username password:</td>
    <td> &lt;suppressed&gt;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>address:</td>
    <td>your address if you gave any</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>telephone:</td>
    <td>your phone number if you gave any</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>other e-mail addresses:</td>
    <td>your e-mail address if you gave any</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>occupation:</td>
    <td>The same here</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>computers:</td>
    <td>Same</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>birthdate:</td>
    <td>Some date sex: Also something here</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>interests:</td>
    <td>Something how (did you find out about us): How do you find them</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>Privacy switch</td>
    <td>on/off</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>shell:</td>
    <td>your shell account terminal: your terminal type erase '^H' kill '^U' interrupt 
      '^C'</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p>Type &quot;help&quot; for a list of things you can change.</p>
<p>Select thing to change or &quot;done&quot;?</p>
<p>Now if you agree with all the data just type done and press enter, or if you 
  want to change something just type the you want to change field.</p>
<p><b><br>
  Step 11. (After You type Done)</b></p>
<p>Now the program is checking if there is already your username, you should be 
  seeing a bunch of numbers scrolling, it's normal don't get scared... Now if 
  your Login name already exists will be asked another, if there isn't the system 
  will encrypt your password, and you'll stay for some time watching a bunch of 
  numbers scrolling. After that....</p>
<p><b><br>
  Step 12. (Congratulations You have a shell account)</b></p>
<p>Yep you've got a shell account, now you should be again in the login sequence 
  and your login name is already written just type in the password, press enter 
  and have fun.Remember that you can have many shells has you want. So if you 
  want you can login again with newuser but instead of choosing a bash shell choose 
  a Cshell and all the others or a shell bash again...</p>
<p><b><font size="4">The commands</font></b></p>
<p>Hi won't talk about of every command that exists in *nix systems, if I did 
  that the file would become huge. If you want to a big amount of information 
  about commands check the final notes section. The basic commands are listed 
  below with their function.</p>
<p>Syntax: command [switches] -&gt; description</p>
<p>man [command] -&gt; display the manual entry about the [command] you gave.</p>
<p>cd [directory] -&gt; like in DOS it changes your current directory, to go one 
  directory up you also use .., if you want to return to your home directory just 
  type cd without the [directory] parameter.</p>
<p>ls [-al] -&gt; ls makes the same as dir in DOS, it lists every file in the 
  directory, the -al is some of the switch you can use. Using this two switch 
  the listing will be displayed with hidden files, file permission, group and 
  owner. To know all the other switches man ls.</p>
<p>cat [file] -&gt; it's the same as the command type in DOS, it displays the 
  <br>
  content of the [file] given.</p>
<p>logout -&gt; Logs you out from your shell account.</p>
<p>who -&gt; Shows who's online, with information about those users. There are 
  programs that make you invisible to the who command, but that's another story, 
  probably in another tutorial.</p>
<p>ps [-aux] -&gt; ps shows every procedure that is running, something like ctrl+alt+del 
  in windows (not to reboot, but to show what's running) but much more powerful 
  since it isn't known how we can run a program without being display in ps. If 
  you run ps with no switches it will just show your own processes, if you use 
  the switch -aux it will list every process that is running in the machine.</p>
<p>joe [file] -&gt; joe is a text editor, it edits or creates the [file] given. 
</p>
<p>Sometimes the shell providers haven't joe but they should have vi (another 
  text editor).</p>
<p><br>
  This command should be enough for you to start. Also use man command in the 
  commands that we talk to get a bigger and more detailed description about it. 
  Good surfing!</p>
<p><b><font size="4">Final Notes</font></b></p>
<p>Now what you need is a little of practice, and good books to get in touch with 
  the commands. One of the best *nix books is UNIX IN A NUTSHELL. You can find 
  it in the books section at BSRF WWW page (<a href="http://blacksun.box.sk" target="_blank">http://blacksun.box.sk</a>). 
  For me, this is the best book about the subject, and since it's free I strongly 
  recommend you to get it. Another good thing is man. For example, if you want 
  to get some information about telnet, and how to use it, you just type in:</p>
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  <p> man telnet</p>
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<p>And it will be prompt the manual page about telnet. If you are using a shell 
  in the freeshell server (<a href="http://freeshel.org" target="_blank">freeshell.org</a>) 
  you can also use the command help without any options. This will call you a 
  menu with the options you can call. And keep in mind that *nix is Case Sensitive 
  so Man, man and MaN or .profile and .Profile isn't the same thing.</p>
<p><br>
  <b>Appendixes</b><br>
  ----------<br>
  A) Can I run IRC bots on free shell accounts? (by R a v e N) No!! Unless you 
  intend to be logged into your shell 24 hours a day. Free shell providers will 
  kill all of your running processes (running programs in the Windows world) once 
  you log off.</p>
<p>B) Are there are other places in which I can get a shell account? (by <a href="mailto:[e-mail]">R 
  a v e N</a>) Of course! Try <a href="http://www.cyberarmy.com/lists" target="_blank">http://www.cyberarmy.com/lists</a></p>
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