From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 20:37:15 2003 Return-Path: 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 1A43637B401 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 20:37:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B06243F3F for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 20:37:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net) Received: from beta.home (ppp364.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.245.107]) h4H3bCMO062960; Sat, 17 May 2003 13:07:12 +0930 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Malcolm Kay Organization: At home To: siavash mahjoob , questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 13:07:11 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20030517032238.51555.qmail@web14910.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030517032238.51555.qmail@web14910.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200305171307.11688.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> cc: s_mahjoob2002@yahoo.com Subject: Re: please guide me... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 03:37:15 -0000 On Sat, 17 May 2003 12:52, siavash mahjoob wrote: > my name is siavash mahjoob > I recently work with freeBSD 4.3.I have problem. I install freeBSD on m= y > computer then create a user with name "admin" and set root password > "siavash".then restart my computer.but when login to freeBSD,I have not > access to resources such as /bin directory. > The supervisor or (king pin) on unix systems is (almost) always known as "root" not "admin". The "root" user is created by default. If you entered= a=20 root password at installation you should be able to gain privileges by logging in as usr "root" and the root password. Judging from from your question, I imagine you would be foolish to mess with the /bin directory until you understand much more of the system. Malcolm