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Before you can use the system, you must set up a user account
for yourself. This is because it's usually not a good idea to use the
root account for normal use. The root account should
be reserved for running privileged commands and for maintaining the
system, as discussed in Section 4.1.
In order to create an account for yourself, you need to login as
root and use the useradd or adduser command. See
Section 4.4 for information on this procedure.
Ross Biro
Tue May 23 13:39:28 PDT 1995