From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 24 16:59:14 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA19083 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Dec 1996 16:59:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.96]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA19078 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 1996 16:59:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA00258; Tue, 24 Dec 1996 16:48:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 16:48:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jason Phillips cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961224194530.006604b4@mail.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The released versions of FreeBSD (SNAPs, ALPHAs, BETAs, RELEASEs) is always at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD floppies are in .../x.y.z-RELEASE/floppies/. On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Jason Phillips wrote: > I have finally got freebsd on my system. the Christmas is complete. but > when it says login and password, I have none. I tried to specify a log in a > the configurations place where it said add new users. it said couldn't open > "pw" stopped at 99. Or something similar. how does one specify the login: > and > Password: ? login as 'root', no password. Then run 'adduser' and make an account for yourself. Then use the 'passwd' command and give root a password. Logout, then login as yourself. Anytime you need superuser access, run 'su' and enter the root password when prompted. Type 'exit' to get back to your account. See the tutorials on http://www.freebsd.org in documentation -> tutorials, especially the new user tutorial. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major