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Connecting and disconnecting

Determine whether you are working in text or in graphical mode.

I am working in text/graphical mode. (cross out what's not applicable)

Log in with the user name and password you made for yourself during the
installation.

Log out.

Log in again, using a non-existent user name

-> What happens?

2.5.2. Passwords

Log in again with your user name and password.

Change your password into P6p3.aa! and hit the Enter key.

-> What happens?

Try again, this time enter a password that is ridiculously easy, like 123 or
aaa.

-> What happens?

Try again, this time don't enter a password but just hit the Enter key.

-> What happens?

Try the command psswd instead of passwd

-> What happens?

Warning New password

Unless you change your password back again to what it was before this exercise, it
will be "P6p3.aa!". Change your password after this exercise!

Note that some systems might not allow to recycle passwords, i.e. restore the
original one within a certain amount of time or a certain amount of password
changes, or both.

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