# Password & User Account

Michael Anderson
Anne-Marie Mahfouf
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2010 Michael Anderson Anne-Marie Mahfouf
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This handbook describes the Password & User Account module.

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## User Information

### Introduction

Screenshot of the User Account Manager

The User Account Manager

This is a module to enter user information and configure basic user settings such as the password and icon. This information and these settings will be used by various &tde; applications (mail programs and word processors for example) when they are completed. You can:

- change your user icon

- change your user login password

- add personal information

- configure the password prompt

### User Icon and Password

User Icon

  This icon is used when the user logs in using a login manager. When your administrator has configured the login manager to allow this option, selecting the button allows you to change the image, either by using a pre-installed icons or selecting one of your own images. Select the Apply to make the changes permanent.

### User Information

Name:

  Enter here the name of the user.

Organization

  Add a business or group name the user would like to be associated with.

Email address:

  Enter here an email address that will be associated with this user.

SMTP server:

  Indicate here a local smtp server for sending mail within a network.

User ID

  This is an information only, providing you the User ID assigned to you. This number is defined in `/etc/passwd` and was defined when your user account was created.

### At Password Prompt

This section allows you to choose how you want to input your password when prompted. The default is to have one bullet appear for each letter typed. That can be changed to three bullets for each letter, which making guessing the length of the password more difficult letters when somebody else is watching. Even more secure is to display nothing while typing the password.

### Change Password

Change password...

  Selecting this button displays a dialog to change your user password. Your user password is the one you log in your system. You will be asked for your current password then twice for your new password.