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Accessing Linux

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Accessing Linux

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- All right, so at this point we are ready to get started with Linux. So how do you normally access Linux? Well, that really depends on how it is offered. Local instances, like the virtual machine that I just created offer a graphical or a console login. The graphical login is what we have just seen. Console login is where you have a command line login only, where you need to enter your username and as well as your password. A remote installation requires Secure Shell or SSH, or any other remote access mechanism. It really depends a little bit on how you remote installation is hosted and there is a wide range of opts available, so it's kind of difficult to show you right now. To access Linux, you need a user account, and that's a user account that in the previous demo I have set up. And in this example case, the name is Student. But if you need to access Linux for work, then it's very likely that somebody has set up the Linux machine for you and you need to ask the person that…

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