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Date:      Fri, 8 May 1998 16:04:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Zhu, Wenfang" <Wenfang.Zhu@VTA.Org>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: login/password
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508160351.28351W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=SCCTA%l=PHANTOM-980508212411Z-2911@Phantom.VTA.Org>

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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Zhu, Wenfang wrote:

> After installing FreeBSD, I first time start the computer, everything
> looks good and the finally  I got a screen: "FreeBSD (myname.my.domain)
> (ttyv0)
> 			         login:
> 		 	         password:      
> 				"
> I don't know what are the login name and password. 

The default username is 'root' with no password.  First thing you should
do is create a user for yourself using `adduser', then modify /etc/rc.conf
and configure for your system.

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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