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First, you need to find a display connected to a computer on which accounts for your course have been provided. You should find out from your instructor or public notices on the first floor of the Computer Sciences Building which computer your course has been assigned. This will either be a vega (a sparc10 running the Solaris version of UNIX) or a sol (a sparc20 running the Solaris version of UNIX). Once you have an account on one of these machines, you will be able to access all of them. Go to the room for that computer and find a monitor that has a box that looks something like the following box.
Welcome to vega1password:
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This banner identifies which host (the name of the computer) you are connected to. In this example, the name of the computer workstation is vega1. The prompt ``login:'' means that the computer is waiting for you to sit down and enter your login name.
Your login is a synonym for your computer account. It is the unique name by which you are publicly known to the system. This name is usually just your first or last name, or some combination thereof.