It is fairly easy to corrupt your SD card or your operating system on the Raspberry Pi. If this happens, and you do not have a backup, you will likely have to rebuild your system from scratch. Hence, it is important to be diligent in keeping your Pi backed up. In this lesson we show how you can back it up using Windisk32Manager, a free and simple program that will do the trick.
Please note that you can not back the card up by simply using a windows drag and drop of the contents. You actually have to make the disk image as shown in this video.
In this lesson we show how to add new users to the Raspberry Pi. The default Pi account on the Raspberry Pi has sudo access, which means that when logged on as “pi” you can pretty much do anything you want by accessing the sudo command prefix. In this lesson we do not add a sudo user, but just one that can pretty much do things in their account folder. To add another user named austin without sudo priviledges, you would use the command:
$ sudo useradd austin -m -s /bin/bash -g users
Then to assign a password, you would give the command:
$sudo passwd austin
Then enter the password when prompted.
In creating a new user in the “users” group, that new user can create and edit files in his folder (/home/austin), and can look at most things on the system, but can not change or add things outside his folder. To allow the user to have sudo privileges, he would need to be added to the sudo group.
To remove a user, you need to be logged into an account with sudo privileges, and then enter the command:
$sudo userdel austin
Which would delete the user austin. This command would delete the user, but would keep their files and folders (/home/austin), but the person could not log in any more. If you wanted to remove the user, and all their files, you would use the following command:
$sudo userdel -r austin
For this command, the user austin, and all his files are removed.
We are now ready to begin connecting to the Raspberry Pi remotely from a windows based machine. This lesson shows you how to install Putty, a SSH Telnet Client, onto your windows machine, and then connect to the Raspberry Pi from anywhere on your network. You will end up with a Terminal window on your desktop computer that is connected to your Raspberry Pi. Remote login is one of the powerful features of Linux.
We are going to start moving into techniques to remotely connect to the Raspberry Pi over a network. In order to do this you will need to know the IP address of the Raspberry Pi. This video lesson shows you how to use the “ifconfig” command to get your IP address.
In earlier lessons we learned how to search for files using the Linux “find” command. We can actually search within files using the “grep” command. This video shows you how to search for words or terms within files using grep.
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