From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 10 0: 4:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B17F37B423 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA03357; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:04:17 -0700 Message-ID: <39BB3271.76D0972E@urx.com> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:04:17 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jwl18937 Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Big Problems! References: <01c01aed$89846360$f2600fd0@preferrc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > jwl18937 wrote: > > From: jwl51@hotmail.com > > I have maybe installed free BSD close to 50 times, then it will > NEVER take either the reg. login I had given, nor the root login. I > am running a 586 PC, 64 megs. ram, 3.5 Gig. Maxtor HD. Please send > list of possibilities I should check for problems. I am running 2 > hard drives, and also Windows 98, but it will not work for me even > on 1 hard drive, fully commited. If there is a way around logging > in, I would love that, since I am the only one in the house > interested in UNIX anyway. Thanks. Just remember that login's in unix are usually in lowercase. The password has requirements such letters (upper & lower case), numbers, and a few special characters. Everything is case sensitive. Don't get overly creative when you are starting out because you may not be able to follow up on it. You can always boot to single user mode and fix a root password. If you have a bad user password, redo it from root. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message