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diff --git a/sag-0.6.1-www/Invisible/sag-0.6/node87.html b/sag-0.6.1-www/Invisible/sag-0.6/node87.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84d67db --- /dev/null +++ b/sag-0.6.1-www/Invisible/sag-0.6/node87.html @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> +<!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 96.1-h (September 30, 1996) by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), CBLU, University of Leeds --> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>What's an account?</TITLE> +<META NAME="description" CONTENT="What's an account?"> +<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="sag"> +<META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> +<META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> +<LINK REL=STYLESHEET HREF="sag.css"> +</HEAD> +<BODY LANG="EN" > + <A NAME="tex2html1412" HREF="node88.html"><IMG WIDTH=37 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="next" SRC="./next_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html1410" HREF="node86.html"><IMG WIDTH=26 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="up" SRC="./up_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html1404" HREF="node86.html"><IMG WIDTH=63 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="previous" SRC="./previous_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html1414" HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="./contents_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html1415" HREF="node114.html"><IMG WIDTH=43 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="index" SRC="./index_motif.gif"></A> <BR> +<B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html1413" HREF="node88.html">Creating a user</A> +<B>Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html1411" HREF="node86.html">Managing user accounts</A> +<B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html1405" HREF="node86.html">Managing user accounts</A> +<BR> <P> +<H1><A NAME="SECTION001010000000000000000">What's an account?</A></H1> +<P> + When a computer is used by many people it is usually + necessary to differentiate between the users, for + example, so that their private files can be kept + private. This is important even if the computer can + only be used by a single person at a time, as with + most microcomputers.<A NAME="tex2html41" HREF="footnode.html#2722"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="./foot_motif.gif"></A> Thus, each + user is given a unique username, and that name is used + to log in. +<P> + There's more to a user than just a name, however. An + <b>account</b> is all the files, resources, and + information belonging to one user. The term hints at + banks, and in a commercial system each account usually + has some money attached to it, and that money vanishes + at different speeds depending on how much the user + stresses the system. For example, disk space might have + a price per megabyte and day, and processing time might + have a price per second. +<P> +<BR> <HR> +<P><ADDRESS> +<I>Lars Wirzenius <BR> +Sat Nov 15 02:32:11 EET 1997</I> +</ADDRESS> +</BODY> +</HTML> |