Task No: 1 (Utilization: Registering with PEACH)

Most commands are completed by pressing the enter key (also known as the return key).

1. Login into your Linux computer account. Your username is your roll number with the leading (first) 0 replaced by z (for example z5005801 given the roll number 05005801). If your roll number contains a 'D', make sure you type it in lowercase (NOT capital).

   Your initial password is your username.

2. Pause. Reflect on what you are looking at. You are at a command terminal (or in brief, a terminal, or shell). This is an area where you can type commands.

3. After login, type startx. Don't do this if you are in front of a machine that is already in graphics mode (e.g., a Macintosh). You will know the machine is in graphics mode if you can click on an item using a mouse.

4. Pause. Reflect on what you are looking at. Open a terminal in the graphical mode. This can be done by clicking the monitor like icon on the taskbar. Or you can right click on an empty portion of the screen and choose xterm. You are now ready to type commands. This terminal (also known as xterm) is just like the previous one, except that you can get multiple terminals in the graphical mode.

5. Start a web browser. Type firefox & in a terminal to open the firefox browser.

6. Go to the URL http://cs101.cse.iitb.ac.in/peach/
7. Read all the instructions very carefully. You must spend at least 3 minutes reading the instructions.
8. Register yourself on PEACH. This is a very important step and must be done with extreme care even if you are a computer expert.
   • Use your Roll Number as your log in name. If your roll number has a `D' in it, type it in lowercase (i.e. `d'). Choose any password. Note that this is your PEACH password, distinct from the Linux password you typed when you first sat down at the computer, which is again different from the LDAP password used to check mail on gpo.iitb.ac.in given earlier to you.
   • Unlike the name your parents gifted you, a chat id is an alternate name that you can give yourself. Choose any name of your choice. Be creative.
   • Normally you will use your IIT Bombay email id, loginname@iitb.ac.in in the email id field, not your gmail or yahoo account (example:z5005801@iitb.ac.in) (unless of course you don't know the password to your IITB email account).
   • An automatically generated email will be sent to the mail id you specified. Read your mail by visiting gpo.iitb.ac.in; if you can't login there, use ilohamail (http://iloha.iitb.ac.in). If neither works, wait for 5-10 minutes and try again. (Sometimes gpo is down, so don't get put off.) If you still don't get the mail, contact your TA.

     Activate your PEACH account, by following the instructions specified in the mail. Before you try to activate your account, make sure that your partner is not logged in to PEACH.

     When you click on the link in the PEACH registration mail, a window will popup where you activate your account. If you don't see the window, and instead see a message at the top of the browser window saying Firefox has blocked a popup, click on the message and select the allow or show option.

9. Logout from peach account

10. Very important. Visit the course web page at http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~cs101. Spend 15 minutes on this noting the important points.