From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 10:58:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF52537BC0C for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA38777; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:58:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:58:49 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Joe Konecny Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: confused about users Message-ID: <20000705105849.A35588@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <396366F1.C2617B75@green-mfg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <396366F1.C2617B75@green-mfg.com>; from jkonecn@green-mfg.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:48:49PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:48:49PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: > While ReadingTFM about INN I noticed that it recommended that > I log in as "news" to configure inn. It appears that the > installation set up a user "news" but I don't know what > the password is. How do I log in as "news"? (fbsd v4) It probably doesn't have a password. Become root, and then use "passwd news" to give it one, or become root and login without specifying a password: $ su Password: # login -f news (the "-f" flag to login indicates that login should not ask for a password.) -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message