Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 10:53:51 -0800 From: "John W. Rasins" <jrasins@mindspring.com> To: barroswe@stud.uni-frankfurt.de Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <2.2.16.19961106185351.7f1f50cc@pop.mindspring.com>
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At 08:17 PM 11/5/96 -0800, you wrote: >Hello! > >Firstly let me say, that you can forget my last mail (ftp-problem). >I've downloaded, the files for version 2.1.5 with windows-netscape and >there may my new problem comes from. >The bin-files where installed without any error-massages and bsd bootet >correctly but then I was asked for a login-name and a password, although >I had until this point of installation no chance to select one of this >items. >I tried some simple ideas, but the system allways returned the message >"incorrect login". > >It would be great if someone of you can tell me what the correct login >at this first-time-startup has to be. >Thanks. peter > Hello Peter. root is your initial logon to FreeBSD, no password. Standard security advice: set up a password immediately, and add at least one other user to use most of the time, using su to go to root when necessary. To add users, use the adduser command. Johnhome | help
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