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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 08:28:56 +1000
From:      "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
To:        "Peter" <fbsdq@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Installing
Message-ID:  <090701c0de57$99cfd730$0300a8c0@oracle>
References:  <SAK.2001.05.16.sjrasnfd@support10>

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> I think it asks you for a password when root first logs in -- at
least that is how I remember it
> when doing 4.2-R install.


yeah it does, but you were supposed to have set that root password
during the install. There is a dialog box pops up saying something
like "You  must now set the root password", then there is another
dialog asking you to enter the password again to confirm.

http://troll.apana.org.au/~freebsd/root_password_1.jpg
http://troll.apana.org.au/~freebsd/root_password_2.jpg
http://troll.apana.org.au/~freebsd/root_password_3.jpg

What interested me was exactly how people manage to get past those.



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