From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 17:16:29 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 326CA37B401 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823CA43E65 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:16:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.com) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (freebsd.localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g6N0GCpC022997; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.com) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:16:07 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade To: Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fresh install, not prompted for root password? Message-Id: <20020722171607.3700a8fe.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> In-Reply-To: <1027368725.3d3c67156c697@netmail.pipex.net> References: <1027368725.3d3c67156c697@netmail.pipex.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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