From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 15 5:50: 6 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 CD50537B401 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 05:50:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4A043FAF for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 05:50:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2FDo2Tb009525; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:50:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E732F5E.8030401@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:49:18 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kim Cheung Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urgent newbie question References: <3E725392.20107@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <3E725392.20107@netscape.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Kim Cheung wrote: > 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. > > I have an urgent need to get into this system and the programmer is > oversea and hasn't respond yet. > > Could somebody please help and email me at kimwaic@deltanet.com. > URGENT URGET!!! Thanks You are logged in. Apparently the programmer misinformed you about the root password ... there isn't any. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message