The automatic network configuration enables a firewall and disables remote access to your machine via SSH. You can change either of these by clicking their default settings so that, for example, you can allow ssh requests through your firewall, so you can log in and transfer files to and from the machine using OpenSSH tools (ssh, sftp, and so on). After you are done, click Next. openSUSE sets up and lets you test your network connections.

21. Online update. YaST tests network connectivity through the network interface that you defined in the previous step, and downloads the latest release notes as a test. This step also enables you to upload configuration information about your system to Novell and identify any new updates that are available. To skip this step, you can select the Configure Later radio button and click Next. If you leave the Configure Now radio button selected, you can click Next to upload information about your system and retrieve information about any available updates. This does not actually install any updates, but only registers the network locations where updates are available so that you can subsequently use them to update your system. You can skip this step by selecting the Configure later radio button. Click Next to proceed.

22. User authentication method. Typically, you will use your home computer in standalone mode, as it relates to user accounts. However, in a business setting, you may use NIS, LDAP, or Samba to get user account lists that allow access to your computer and other com- puters on your LAN. If the latter is the case, select Network Client and choose either NIS (a common facility used by UNIX systems to share configuration files) or LDAP (a standard directory service, used to share address books and other kinds of information on a network), depending on what your company supports. Choosing Samba lets you use Windows SMB file- and print-sharing features for authentication. Then click Next.

23. New local user. You will want to add at least one user account, as prompted, for your computer. Right now, you have only the root user account set up for use on a standalone machine. Using that account for e-mail, Web browsing, or other common tasks is considered bad security practice. So you should add at least one user account for non- administrative use of your computer. Add your full name; a short, one-word login name; and a password to protect that account.

If you want to have this user automatically logged in on the system whenever you restart, leave the Automatic Login check box selected. Otherwise, de-select it to see a standard login prompt whenever you boot your system. You can also check the Receive System Mail check box to ensure that the user account you have just created automatically receives a copy of any mail sent to the root user on your system, which is often sent by administrative applications. To proceed, click Next.

When you are done, YaST writes the system configuration information to your computer. It then displays the Release Notes for your current version of openSUSE. Click Next to continue.

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