HP (Hewlett-Packard) 742i User Manual
HP 9000 Model 742i
Owner's Guide
for HP-UX Users
HP 9000 Series 700i Industrial Workstations
ABCDE
HP Part No. A2260-90014
Printed in USA February 1993
Edition 1
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Contents
1. Product Description
Chapter Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
The HP9000 Model 742i
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Features of the 742i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Memory Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Built-In Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
2. Finding Information About Your System
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Chapter Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Installing Your Model 742i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Online Sources of Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
3. Logging In and Getting Started
Chapter Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Before Logging In the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Turning On Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Displaying Graphics on a Remote X Host . . . . . . . . . 3-4
For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Interpreting the LED Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Logging In and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Logging In with HP-UX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Logging Out with HP-UX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Creating a New User Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
Setting or Changing a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Selecting a New Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Shutting Down Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
Using the Shutdown Command to Stop Your System . . . . 3-11
Using SAM to Stop Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
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Using the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
4. Conguring HP-UX for Printers and Drives
Chapter Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Preparing for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Conguring HP-UX for a Prin
ter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Testing the Printer Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Dealing With Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Finding the Status of Existing SCSI Bus Addresses
Conguring for a Hard Disk Drive
Software Installation of the Hard Disk Driv
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
e Upgrade . . . . 4-8
. . . . . . 4-7
Testing Your Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Conguring for a Flexible Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12
Testing Your Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Archiving Files to a Flexible Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14
Retrieving Files from a Flexible Disk . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14
Mounting a New Flexible Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
Removing and Inserting a File-System Flexible Disk . . . . . 4-16
Conguring for a CD ROM Drive.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17
Installing the CD ROM Drive with SAM . . . . . . . . . . 4-18
Testing Your Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Mounting the New CD ROM Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Removing and Inserting a Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21
For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22
Conguring for a DDS Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23
Conguring the Drive on HP-UX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24
Testing Your Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-26
DDS Tape Drive LED Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27
Maximum Usage of DDS Cassettes . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29
In Case of Diculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29
5. Backing Up, Restoring, and Updating Your Software
Chapter Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Backing Up Your System and Software . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Creating a Recovery System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Using mkrs to Create a Recovery System . . . . . . . . 5-3
Source Device Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Root Device Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
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If You Have a Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Backing Up Your File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Restoring Individual Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
Restoring Your Operating System Using the Reco
very Tape . . 5-10
For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
6. Dealing With Problems
Chapter Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Interpreting the LED Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Managing a Boot F
Boot Program Initializes Hardw
ailure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
are . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Selecting an Alternate Operating System . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Recovering from a System Panic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
Procedures for Recovering from a System Panic . . . . . . . 6-11
Step 1: Note the Panic Message . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
Step 2: Categorize the Panic Message . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
Step 3a: Recovery from Hardware Failure . . . . . . . . 6-11
Step 3b: Recovering from a File System Problem . . . . . 6-12
Step 3c: Recovering from a LAN Communication Problem . 6-12
Step 3d: Recovering from Other Situations . . . . . . . . 6-12
Step 4: Rebooting Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
Step 5: Monitor the system closely . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
For Further Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
Dealing with Network Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
A. Installing Additional Memory
Appendix Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
RAM Replacement Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
Planning for Installation of the RAM . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Determining Existing Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
RAM Board Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Installing the RAM ReplacementPairs . . . . . . . . . . . A-4
Verifying the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6
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B. Using the Bo ot R
OM
Appendix Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1
Boot Console User In
terface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2
Special Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2
Information Displayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2
System Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2
Using the Boot Console User In
Entering the Bo ot Administration Mo de .
Exiting the Bo ot Administration Mode
Getting Help for the Bo ot Console User In
terface . . . . . . . . . . . B-3
. . . . . . . . . B-4
. . . . . . . . . . B-4
terface Commands . B-5
Booting the Mo del 742i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-5
Searching for Bootable Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-7
Redisplaying the Results of a Search. . . . . . . . . . . . B-8
Displaying and Setting Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-9
Resetting the Mo del 742i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-11
Displaying and Setting the Real-Time Clo ck . . . . . . . . B-11
Displaying and Setting the Autoselect Flag . . . . . . . . . B-12
Displaying and Setting the Secure Boot Mo de
. . . . . . . B-12
Displaying and Setting the Fastboot Mo de . . . . . . . . . B-13
Displaying the LAN Station Address . . . . . . . . . . . B-14
Using the VME Backplane Networking Parameters . . . . . B-14
Glossary
Index
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Figures
1-1. Model 742i FrontPanel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Tables
1-1. HP-UX Operating System and Languages for the Model 742i .
3-1. LED Diagnostic Display During Normal HP-UX Operation .
4-1. DDS Tape Drive LED State Co des . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-28
6-1. Hardware-Error LED Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
6-2. Operating-System Error LED Indications . . . . . . . . . 6-4
6-3. Problems with the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
B-1. System Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-9
B-2. Mnemonic Style Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-9
1-4
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Product Description
Chapter Contents
The HP 9000 Mo del 742i is an exceptionally exible, high-performance
Precision Architecture system based on the Hewlett-Packard PA RISC 7100
technology. Some features are outlined in the following sections.
1
1
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Product Description 1-1
1
The HP9000 Model 742i
Figure 1-1. Model 742i Front P
Features of the 742i
The Mo del 742i has the following features:
50 Mhz PA-RISC processor delivering 61 MIPs.
Congurable with 8 to 64 MB main memory (see \Memory Upgrades"). F
an HP-UX system, at least 16 MB of main memory is required.
ECC RAM correction.
2 memory module slots.
External Cache: 64 KB instruction cache and 64 KB data cache.
Input/Output:
RS-232-C (2).
AUI
SCSI-II SE
Memory Upgrades
Upgrades or factory-integrated RAM provide 16 MB, 32 MB, and 64 MB
memory congurations. See Appendix A.
anel
or
1-2 Product Description
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Built-In Interfaces
1
For graphics, printing, and LAN communications, the Mo del 742i pro
following I/O interfaces:
HP-Parallel Interface.
LAN AUI (15-pin D-subminiature; requires MAU for connection to LAN).
2 Asynchronous RS-232 Interfaces: 9-pin male DTE (PC standard).
SCSI-II Interface: 50-pin high density; single-ended 8-bit, up to 5 MB/sec.
synchronous.
The I/O for the Model 742i is on the fron
Physical Dimensions and Power Requirements
Height: 40.6 mm. (2 VMEbus slots).
Width: 233.3 mm. (9.2 in.)
Depth: 160 mm. (6.3 in.)
Weight: .91 kg. (2.0 lb.)
Power:
35 watts @ +5 vdc.
0.12 watts @ +12 vdc.
0.12 watts @ -12 vdc.
t panel, shown on the opposite page.
vide the
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Product Description 1-3
1
Operating System
HP-UX 9.01 for the Mo del 742i the HP VUE in
System.
Table 1-1 lists the HP-UX op erating system features and languages for the
Model 742i.
Table 1-1.
HP-UX Operating System and Languages for the Model 742i
Operating system: HP-UX 9.01 or later. HP-UX complies with X
POSIX specications.
Languages: HP-PA Assembly, ANSI/C,
FORTRAN/9000.
User interface: Terminal Interface via RS232 only. By using LAN, the X
Window System 11R5 (OSF/Motif 1.2)and HP VUE 3.0
can be used on a suitable X T
Network Features: IEEE 802.3/Ethernet Local Area Network:
S.25.
SNA.
RJE.
TCP-IP.
HP Diskless.
terface, and the X Windo
Open, and
C++
,Pascal, HP-UX
erminal display).
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Finding Information About Your System
Overview
Your Mo del 742i uses the standard HP-UX 9.01 operating system, a highly
versatile system for multitasking, running your application programs, and
performing a variety of other tasks.
Chapter Contents
Installing Your Model 742i.
Online Sources of Information.
2
2
Finding Information About Your System 2-1
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2
Installing Your Model 742i
If you have not installed your hardware or started your system, refer to the
Instal lation Guide
for your system before going further.
Basic Information
After you have read the
Instal lation Guide
for your system, you maywantto
see the following sources for further information:
For a quick reference to commonly-used HP-UX commands, see the
Appendix in
Using HP-UX
.
At some point, you maywanttointeract with the Mo del 742i via the LAN
using HP VUE with an X Window System display. HP VUE is the default
interface for HP-UX. As a simpler window alternative, you can also use the X
Window System. Both are included in HP-UX. For further information, see
the manual
Guide
Using the X Window System,Using HP-UX
.
,or
HP VUE User's
The following manuals will also be useful:
If you have not yet installed your HP-UX system, see
Updating HP-UX 9.0
For administration information, see
For troublesho oting HP-UX, see
, whichcovers HP-UX 9.01.
System Administration Tasks
Solving HP-UX Problems
Instal ling and
.
, and Chapter 6
in this manual.
For VME conguration information, see
VME Conguration Guide for
HP-UX
2-2 Finding Information About Your System
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Online Sources of Information
2
HP-UX is designed so that y
leaving your system. Some of these information sources are a
ou can access many sources of information without
vailable through a
shell command line.
Man Pages: The information on HP-UX whic
is also on line and accessible b
y clicking on the Toolb ox button at the righ
of your FrontPanel, or byentering on a command line
command
is the name of the HP-UX command y
on. If you're not sure of the command name y
where
keyword
is a likely topic w
ord to search on. This will result in a
h is found in
HP-UX Reference
man
command
ou want to get information
ou can enter
man -k
keyword
t
, where
display listing commands having the keyword in their description.
There are also a variety of les on your HP-UX system which contain
version-specic information which will be useful in administering and
conguring cards and devices for your version of HP-UX. Among these are the
following:
Release Notes: This is the online version of the Release Notes which came
with your system. It contains all the late information, undocumented
changes and bug xes for your release of HP-UX. Release Notes is found in
the
/etc/newconfig
e.g.,
90RelNotes
Terminfo: The directory
containing information ab out terminal congurations, indexed b
directory, and may be named by its release number,
, for HP-UX 9.0.
/usr/lib/terminfo
contains subdirectories
y the
rst character of the terminal name. For example, to nd conguration
information ab out the hp98546, you can lo ok in
/usr/lib/terminfo/h
for a
listing of information les for all the terminal names beginning with \h".
,
These lenames also constitute all the acceptable arguments for setting the
TERM variable, in case you are using a non-default terminal conguration.
Finding Information About Your System 2-3
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2
Newcong: The directory
versions of HP-UX pro duct conguration les, as w
mayhave been customized (lo calized) on y
directory will vary depending on which products y
system. In most cases, old v
the le system, are not o
le in
/etc/newconfig
/etc/newconfig
ersions of these les, in their regular lo cations in
verwritten by the update process. See the README
for information on the contents of this directory
contains information and new
ell as shell scripts whic
our system. The contents of this
ou have loaded on your
.
h
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Logging In and Getting Started
Chapter Contents
Before Logging In the First Time.
Turning On Your System.
Interpreting the LED Indicators.
Logging In and Out.
Creating a New User Account.
Setting or Changing a Password.
Getting Help.
Shutting Down Your System.
3
Logging In and Getting Started 3-1
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Before Logging In the First Time
If your Mo del 742i system does not ha
system disk, and you want it to be a cluster clien
manual
3
clusters and cno des.
Managing Clusters of HP-UX Computers
This chapter reviews some initial procedures and pro
both HP VUE sessions and HP-UX. F
HP VUE after login, see the
HP VUE User's Guide
When you turn on your Mo del 742i to complete the installation pro cess, y
ve a hard disk attached, or if it has a le
t node (cnode), refer to the
for instructions on setting up
vides information on using
or more detailed information ab out using
.
ou
will be asked for the following information. If you do not have this information
5
readily available, simply press
4
Return
after the questions, and you can supply
this information later:
The time zone where your system is lo cated.
The host name for your system; any alphanumeric, single-word name with
eight or fewer characters.
The network address number, also called an IP number, for your system.
This consists of four address elds separated b
255.32.3.10
.You may need to consult with your system administrator for
y perio ds: for example,
this information. Or, if your host name and IP number have already been
assigned, you can nd out the host name, after b oot, b
yentering
uname -a
.
If you knowyour host name, you can nd out your IP number byentering
nslookup
host name
, at the system prompt.
If you can't supply this information at boot time, y
ou can congure it into the
system later, after logging in, byentering the command
You can then enter the information at the prompts.
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set_parms
,as
root
.
Turning On Your System
With all p eripheral devices turned o, do the follo wing:
1. Turn on the p o
unit will show that it is turned on, ev
wer to your display. The power indicator LED on the displa
en if the screen remains dark. Mak
sure of the following:
a. The appropriate LAN connection has b een made to the Model 742i.
b. Normally,you will use a c
port on the Mo del 742i. If y
haracter terminal connected to the RS232A
ou use a remote graphical displa
y host
connected via LAN, make sure the remote system is congured to host
the Model 742i. See \Displaying Graphics on a Remote X Host", in this
chapter, for the sp ecics of setting this up.
2. Check SCSI connections and turn on the po
3. Turn your Mo del 742i system on. The LEDs on the fron
wer to any peripheral devices.
t panel will light,
showing that the power ison.
4. You should see a sequence of boot messages. Allow the boot to con
5. During the boot pro cess, messages will prompt y
ou for the host name, IP
tinue.
number, and time zone. If you have this information, enter it as requested.
Otherwise, press
set_parms
4
Return
4
5
.You can also enter this information later bytyping
Return
5
after login.
6. You will be asked if you want to set a ro ot password at this time. If you
choose to do this, see \Selecting a New P
assword", in this chapter, for
password requirements.
y
e
3
The system will nish the bo ot sequence, and y
login:
" prompt.
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ou will see the \
Console
Displaying Graphics on a Remote X Host
With the Model 742i, y
cannot directly display them. However, you can use a remote computer whic
has graphical capabilit y to displa
interact with it. This is done b
3
the Model 742i.
DISPLAY
which a system sends bitmapped output for clien
For example, if the Model 742i is called
xhost system
, and the program running on the Mo del 742i is called
enter the following on y
ou can run HP VUE or the X Windo
w System, but you
y the system running on the Mo del 742i and
y setting the
DISPLAY
environmentvariable on
sets the host, displaynumber, and screen n
ts.
server
system
,your remote system is
our remote X host system to get it to displa
h
umber to
xwijit
,
y the Mo del
742i bits:
xhost +
server system This enables the Model 742i to recognize the
remote X host.
rlogin
DISPLAY=
server system Log in on the Model 742i.
xhost system
:0.0
On the Model 742i, set the
DISPLAY
variable so
that it wil l display on your remote X system.
export DISPLAY
xwijit
Export the variable
Run the program on the Model 742i
For More Information
For detailed information on running HP VUE in a net
the
HP VUE User's Guide
.
worked environment, see
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Caution
If your system has its o
operating system, do not turn o po
rst shutting down the operating system softw
the pro cedure in this c
Turning o the po
wn disk and you are running a lo cal
wer to your system without
are according to
hapter, \Shutting Down Your System".
wer for your stand-alone system without rst
doing the shutdown procedure may result in damage to data on
your disk. Always execute the shut-down process to completion
rst.
If you are running your system as a node in a cluster (without
a le system disk) you can, in an
y case, shut down your system
by turning o the power after you have properly closed les
and terminated processes. If you have a mounted le system
disk, you must become
root
and perform the procedure
in \Shutting Down Your System", or haveyour system
administrator do so. You can run
by being listed in the le
Administration Tasks
/etc/shutdown.allow
for details.
shutdown
without
. See
being
System
root
3
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Interpreting the LED Indicators
There are nine LEDs (\Ligh
front. Eight of these are diagnostic, or indicate the normal activit
system. The one on the far left indicates po
3
The normal running indications for HP-UX are sho
four of the eight diagnostic LEDs will blink to reect activit
operation. For LED indications of error conditions during boot, see T
LED Diagnostic Display During Normal HP-UX Operation
LED Display Meaning
t Emitting Dio des"), whic
wer \on".
wn in Table 3-1. The righ
Table 3-1.
Operating system running
Disk access in progress
Network receive in progress
Network transmit in progress
hyou can view on the
yofyour
t
y during normal
able 6-1.
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Logging In and Out
Once HP-UX is running on y
logging in is one of the w
using your system. This is esp ecially important if y
our system, you must log in. The process of
ays that HP-UX prevents unauthorized p ersons from
our system is attached to a
network.
Logging In with HP-UX
If you are not using HP VUE, then a command-line login prompt appears after
boot:
login:
1. Type your login name (or
2. Press
If you
4
Return
haven't
5
.
yet set a password, you will get a a system prompt (\#" for
root
).
root, or$for user), and you can b egin using the system.
3. Otherwise, type your password when the system gives the following prompt:
Password:
4.
Press
4
5
. The system prompt (\#"or\$") appears and you can use the
Return
system.
3
Logging Out with HP-UX
If you are not using HP VUE, you can use the
lock
command to temporarily
leaveyour system (while leaving processes running). If you want to log out of
your currentwork session entirely, use the following command:
exit
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Creating a New User Account
If you have access to a system administrator, that person ma
up a user account for you. Otherwise, you will need to do the follo
up a user account so that you can interact with the system as non-
3
not incur the risk of acciden
You usually work in your home directory or \accoun
tally damaging data.
t", and most of y
yhave already set
wing to set
root
and
our
default les are kept there. As \owner" of this directory and its subdirectories,
you also have control over access to the les in the accoun
t.
Using SAM
To create a user account, you will need to use \SAM", the System
Administration Manager.
Caution
In order to use SAM, you must be logged in as
by the command prompt \#"). The
root
root
(indicated
account is a separate
login account providing unlimited p ermissions on your system.
This means that you need to take actions more carefully when
you are
root
. The
root
account is only used to do system
administration tasks, and, for security reasons, it should use a
password which is dierent from your everyday user password.
Using HP-UX
and
System Administration Tasks
giveyou more
details on using SAM.
You can navigate around a SAM screen on a character terminal using the
arrow keys and
selection is illuminated, press
1. Type
2.
At the opening menu, choose
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Users and Groups->
3.
At the next screen, choose
4
5
to illuminate the selection you want to activate. When the
Tab
usr/bin/sam
,as
root
illuminated.
4
5
Return
to activate, or \choose" it.
, followed by
4
Return
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Users and Groups->
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Users
.You will see a screen displaying a list of
5
.
pressing
4
Return
5
logins and real names.
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