Red Hat System Administration I
In this lab, you will log in through the graphical display manager as a regular user to become familiar with the GNOME Classic desktop environment provided by GNOME 3.
Outcome
A basic orientation to the GNOME 3 desktop environment.
Access the graphical login screen of desktopX.example.com.
Important
There are two virtual machines available for lab exercises,
a desktop machine (generically called desktopX)
and a server (generically called serverX).
Take care to keep straight which virtual machine an exercise wants you to use.
Do each of the following tasks on the desktopX machine.
Log in as student using the password
student.
At the GNOME login screen, click the
studentuser account. Enterstudentwhen prompted for the password.Click once the password has been typed in.
Change the password for student from
student to 55TurnK3y.
The simplest approach is to open GNOME Terminal and use the passwd command at the shell prompt.
On the empty desktop, press the Menu key or right-click with the mouse to open the context menu.
Select .
In the terminal window that appears, type passwd at the shell prompt. Follow the instructions provided by the program to change the
studentpassword fromstudentto55TurnK3y.
Log out.
Select the → menu item.
Click the button in the confirmation window that appears.
Log back in as student with the new password of
55TurnK3y.
At the GNOME login screen, click the
studentuser account. Enter55TurnK3ywhen prompted for the password.Click Sign In once the password has been typed in.
Determine how to shut down desktopX from the graphical
interface, but the operation
without shutting down the system.
Select the → menu item.
Click the button in the confirmation screen that appears.
