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Date:      Thu, 2 Jul 1998 01:37:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Muzammil Razaq <muzammil75@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem with login..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980702013650.18536z-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980630151345.223.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Muzammil Razaq wrote:

> I am new to freeBSD, I downloaded some dists like 
> bin,manpages,dict,problibs etc and i ran the BSD installation from a dos 
> partition. I was able to install it easily but it would not log me in. 
> it would say login incorrect. i was prompted to create some user account 
> and some user group during the installation, even that would not work. 
> next time i tried installation without creating any user account and 
> groups even that time it would show the same message. I even tried 
> system managers password but it was the same.

Try logging in as `root' with no password.

If you're stuck then see the FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ on how to
unstick yourself (see the question about forgetting the root password).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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