[olpc-help] Changing my Liniux login name?

[znmeb]

MrSniffer wrote:
> According to WHOAMI, my user id is "olpc". This is a problem with (AL)PINE, which then sends mail from olpc at mydomain. Can I change my system so that I am logged on as MyChoiceOfID instead?


You'll probably need to do two things:

1. Create a new user ID for yourself.
2. Configure your mailer.

I can't help you with 2 -- I use Web mail clients from a browser when I'm away from my home base. But 1 is easy: log in as "root" and type

# useradd -m MyChoiceOfID
# passwd MyChoiceOfID

Then when you're in the terminal activity, you can type

$ su - MyChoiceOfID

and do your text mail thing.

Also, if you have a Linux machine, you'll now be able to do

$ ssh MyChoiceOfID@<hostname or IP address of your XO>

This should also work from a Mac. For a Windows machine, you'll need to download and install the "PuTTY" SSH/SFTP client.

A word of warning -- you'll basically be a Linux terminal user only. You won't be able to run Sugar, and unless you do some other hacks you won't be able to start up anything in the X Windows system.