Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 08:40:14 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> To: ALBERTO RUIZ <arr@vnet.es> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TOO MANY QUESTIONS!!! Message-ID: <19990517084014.A388@fisicc-ufm.edu> In-Reply-To: <373D4021.1143F66A@vnet.es>; from ALBERTO RUIZ on Sat, May 15, 1999 at 11:36:33AM %2B0200 References: <373D4021.1143F66A@vnet.es>
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On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 11:36:33AM +0200, ALBERTO RUIZ wrote: > Dear Sirs, > I recently bought Free BSD 3.1 from Walnut Creek, but I got some > problems in the installation: > > [snip] > > Then , I exit install, and when it reboots, I am asked for a login and a > pass but I didnīt enter any login. use "root", root is the login of the superuser (the system administrator) which you are if you're managing your own computer. it's better to create an account tough, don't do all your work as root. > How can I make it work?Should I have created an user account? from above... yes. > However, I made other things, a window appeared, and I was asked for the > login, my UID was 1001, and a password, then I typed the root pass, I you should have made up a passwd at this point. your personal login should not have the same password as root. > retyped it, I reboot, and when I was asked for the login, I entered it , > then the pass, and I got the same wrong message:LOGIN FAILURE hmm. do you remember the root password? if you do just enter at the login prompt: login: root password: <YOUR ROOT PASSWORD> that should let you fix things up. use the man command to see the manual pages of some useful programs like: passwd(1) and su(1). regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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