From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 2 21:24:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA07494 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 21:24:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA07481 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 21:24:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA13210; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 21:24:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 21:24:21 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey To: cyberhaq cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login In-Reply-To: <345D49DF.459@concentric.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi! I have just installed FreeBSD on my system. Now when I start up I > get a login screen, what do I do from here. I think the name I made was > cyberhaq, and I also assigned a password, but It just keeps repeating > login incorrect. I wanted to know if there was a way to get back into > the setup so I could make a new login, I just don't know what to do. > Can you help? I have tried inserting the boot floppy into the drive but > it just asks me if I want to do a new install. > Did it ask you to assign a password to the user root? You can try tying root as the user and see what it does. If not boot into single user mode and change the password for the account you made. "passwd username" or just "passwd" to change the password for root. type -s at the boot prompt to go into single user mode.