From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 23:22:57 2004 Return-Path: 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 21A9716A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:22:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C78B443D2D for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:22:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:26:17 -0600 Message-ID: <41A3C65B.90800@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:23:07 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: glen disley References: <41A3C230.2020701@telusplanet.net> In-Reply-To: <41A3C230.2020701@telusplanet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Nov 2004 23:26:18.0149 (UTC) FILETIME=[D5520550:01C4D1B3] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login screen on 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:22:57 -0000 glen disley wrote: > I just installed Freebsd5.3. After a long compile process and a > few tweeks of Xorg I was able to get a kdm screen prompt. > There are only 2 users on the system, one bing root and the > other me (Glen). What I don't understand is why on the kdm > login screen I see Charlie&root as administrators and Glen > as a user. I'm semi familiar with Linux and my root login is > only root no other names. No one else has access to the > computer other then me and I set it up behind a SMC router > with a built in firewall Your system, most likely, is just fine. For some reason(s), probably historical and perhaps hysterical, the full name for the root account is, as you can see: grep Charlie /etc/passwd root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh "Charlie &" ... unless you gave him another name by editing the password file. I've already done a historical posting today, so if it's OK, we'll let someone else tell us why it's that way ... or you can look yourself, or we can just let it slide. But, in FreeBSD, root's full name is "Charlie Root" --- you'll notice it in your nightly emails as well. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.