From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 22:52:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1569037B401 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:52:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from athen127.server4free.de (athen127.server4free.de [217.172.180.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895F543FAF for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neitzel@softmediatec.de) Received: from 192.168.123.187 (pD9EA255A.dip.t-dialin.net [217.234.37.90]) by athen127.server4free.de (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) with ESMTP id h2F7DCw00468; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:13:12 +0100 From: Konrad Neitzel Organization: SoftMediaTec GmbH To: Kim Cheung , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urgent newbie question Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:58:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3E725392.20107@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <3E725392.20107@netscape.net> Cc: kimwaic@deltanet.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303150758.11706.neitzel@softmediatec.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 14. M=E4rz 2003 23:11 schrieb Kim Cheung: > I have a need to know how to log on to a FreeBSD system installed in > my notebook by a programmer. He told me that the UserID should be > root and then gave me the password. When I booted up FreeBSD, I > entered root as instructed. Unfortunately the next thing that > happens is that I get thrown to a command proompt #TEST - rather then > a password prompt. That looks like the is no password. The "TEST #" (I think that was the=20 prompt you see, but of course it can anything else, too!) ist the=20 prompt you got after that. I am just wondering what the one, who installed that computer, wants to=20 do. a) It isn't a good idea to work as root b) It is always a good idea to set up XFree. Normaly users are glad, if=20 they can log in in a graphical system I hope I was able to help you. With kind regards, Konrad =2D --=20 Konrad Neitzel Tel: 0172 / 689 31 45 =46ax: 069 / 90 50 99 53 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+cs8BxlHQ37B9RLMRAhnLAJ95+LJn6+GstPMGdhZ6tedZICXhjACbBfQt pMDl2WkYx1bgrqoN0Vu3qOg=3D =3D0ksP =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message