Getting to VM and Account information - griffinsnest/tech-Jorunal-1 GitHub Wiki

Getting to the VM

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To get to the Virtual Machine(VM) follow this link https://vcenter01.cyber.local. It will take you to VMWare's vSphere Getting Started page where you will have the option to use either an HTML5 client or a Deprecated web client. Click the HTML5 option, it will prompt you to login into the vSphere, which should be whatever you submitted before class started. This will take you to a client application where under the VMs template you will find the VM template for the class.

Account information

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To find the current account name when logged in, simply open the command prompt application and enter the whoami command, which once entered will return the system's saved name for the address(note this can be different than the one displayed when logging in). The "sudo -i" command will return a root prompt with a new shell environment as if the root did a login even though the command asks for the password of the current account. To exit this root shell simply type exit into the command prompt to log out of the root "account". To create a new account, once again open the command prompt and use the "sudo adduser" command followed by the wanted username, and to change this new accounts password or any other accounts password simply use the "Sudo passed" command with the argument of the user whose password you wish to change. You'll then be prompted to enter and re-enter the new password for that account and then you're good.