Hi

I just wanted to ask a few basic questions really. I'm telnetting to a remote host and I've finally found out that I'm using a csh shell.

My questions are:

1. Is the somename@something, the user group logged in?
2. How do I change user?

I'm really lost so I hope someone can help Thank you!

hellz.

1. someuser@somehost is a repersentation of a
user's id at (@) some host BUT it normally
represents an email address and does not
necessarily mean the user has anything but
an email account on that server. In other
words, it has nothing to do with telnet access.

2. you would use the "su" command to change to
another user assuming you have that user's
password. Check the man page su(1).

I hope this answers your questions. I'm sure
it creates more

if you mean by someone@something is someones email. then something is the domain name from the server. Someone is the user nick on the server.
you can change uses on a server by typeing su nick. then you switch to user nick. you must type his password before you are nick. to go to root you can simply type su or su root. if you are root you can change to anyone without typing a password.

i hope this is the information you are searching for

Hi guys,

That was what I was looking for, thank you very much. It's brought up one other question I have though, from the passwd file, the lines output in a way like this:

demos::993:997emonstration User:/usr/demos:/bin/csh
OutOfBox::995:997:Out of Box Experience:/usr/people/tour:/bin/csh

As you can see, those don't have passwords, but what part of the lines is the username?

Thanks ever so much again.

hellz.

demos and OutOfBox are the user login names.
The format is...

accountassword:UID:GID:comment:directory:shell

in my previous post, the ":" followed
by a "p" is displayed as a smiley face.

Use "Disable Smilies in This Post" facility to avoid such things. Its below the text area.