Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 17:14:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@mercury.jorsm.com> To: "Zhu, Wenfang" <Wenfang.Zhu@VTA.Org> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: login/password Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980508171130.19437F-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=SCCTA%l=PHANTOM-980508212411Z-2911@Phantom.VTA.Org>
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Unless you added additional accounts with sysinstall during the installation you would use "root" as the login and the appropriate password. If you've forgotten your password already, or mistyped it, you can boot to single-user mode and: (from a previous post) > Once you've booted to single-user mode run: > mount -a > This we mount all your filesystems as Read/Write - you should then be > able > to run: > passwd >Which will change the root password from single-user mode... -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- On Fri, 8 May 1998, Zhu, Wenfang wrote: > Hi, > After installing FreeBSD, I first time start the computer, everything > looks good and the finally I got a screen: "FreeBSD (myname.my.domain) > (ttyv0) > login: > password: > " > I don't know what are the login name and password. > I tried used the password which when installing I was asked to enter and > also tried to use "myname" & "ttyv0" but it doesn't work at all . > > would you please give me some idear to figure out . > > thank you ! > > > wenfang > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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