Boston University Linux

BU Linux machines can authenticate to the main campus Kerberos servers, but need to have a local database of account information. In some departments, this is provided via LDAP or NIS, but in most cases, you'll need to set up this yourself.

This is actually easier than it sounds. All you need to do is log in with the root account with the password you created during the installation process. If you are in graphical mode, this should take you immediately to the GUI user account management tool, with which you should find it very easy to add a BU login account which uses your central Kerberos password. If you're in text mode, simply type sudo add-bu-user username to accomplish the same thing. You can also create a local-only (non-Kerberized) account with a local password.

No matter which course you chose, you may also want to add your account to the wheel group, which will give you administrator (root-equivalent) access via sudo and with the various graphical configuration tools.

When you've created your account, exit the GUI tool or log out of the root account, and log back in as yourself.