From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 9:54:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB2637B41C for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:54:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nmail1.systems.pipex.net (nmail1.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2882C43E42 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:54:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sroberts@dsl.pipex.com) Received: from nmail1.systems.pipex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nmail1.systems.pipex.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6NGsAse004458; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:54:10 +0100 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nmail1.systems.pipex.net (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6NGsAeQ004457; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:54:10 +0100 To: Nathan Kinkade Subject: Re: Fresh install, not prompted for root password? Message-ID: <1027443250.3d3d8a3262079@netmail.pipex.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:54:10 +0100 From: Cc: References: <1027368725.3d3c67156c697@netmail.pipex.net> <20020722171607.3700a8fe.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> <1027409365.3d3d05d579988@netmail.pipex.net> <20020723073242.70f695d6.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> In-Reply-To: <20020723073242.70f695d6.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: PIPEX NetMail 2.2.0-pre13 X-PIPEX-username: sroberts%dsl.pipex.com X-Originating-IP: 81.86.129.77 X-Usage: Use of PIPEX NetMail is subject to the PIPEX Terms and Conditions of use Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Nathan, I've not tried that., I'll try that as soon as I get in from work. I'm planning to cvsup to 4.6.1 this evening.., as well. What do you think might have gone wrong? The root password was set during the installation time, using the sysinstall gui. Stacey Quoting Nathan Kinkade : > When logged in as root, what happens if you try to change roots password > with `passwd` and then logout and log back in again? > > Nathan > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:29:25 +0100 > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > Thanks for replying. > > > > Upon rebooting, I get the normal logn prompt[Login: ]. > > > > If I enter user "root" I get logged in straight away, I don't get the > > usual prompt for password [Password: ]. > > > > Whatever info you think you might need, do let me know. > > > > Stacey > > > > Quoting Nathan Kinkade : > > > > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:12:05 +0100 > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I just a FreeBSD box here (from 4.4 Rel CD set) and after > > > > rebooting, I > > > > wasn't prompted for root's password at the console login. > > > > > > > > Did I miss a step somewhere? > > > > > > > > Stacey > > > > > > You shouldn't get prompted for root's password. You should simply > > > get a login prompt...like "login: ". Also, what type of prompt do > > > you get, if any? What do you see when you reboot? Need more > > > information. > > > > > > Nathan > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message