From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 16 15:29:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailin2.email.bigpond.com (juicer14.bigpond.com [139.134.6.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB63137B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 15:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.56]) by mailin2.email.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDG9D900.3TD; Thu, 17 May 2001 08:34:21 +1000 Received: from CPE-61-9-142-177.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.142.177]) by mail3.bigpond.com (Claudes-Superb-MailRouter V2.9c 5/3539654); 17 May 2001 08:28:37 Message-ID: <090701c0de57$99cfd730$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Peter" , References: Subject: Re: Installing Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 08:28:56 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message