Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:31:54 +0100 From: Christopher Raven <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk> To: Nick <nick@key.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help someone??? Message-ID: <36069B99.D8F025CA@ukonline.co.uk> References: <000101bde55b$a7e79a80$590423cb@nick>
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If you didn't enter any users and passwords when you installed, try user: root password: <rtn> i.e just log in as root and then press return for password. Give your root user a password by command passwd You should add a "user" ASAP though, as working as root can cost you dear if you make a mistake. To add a new user use the command: adduser ALTHOUGH IT WOULD BE BETTER to use: /stand/sysinstall and use the graphical interface: /stand/sysinstall then choose: Configure then: User Management then: Add group then: Add user Put the user into a the group you made, and also "wheel" if user is to be given root privileges. Instructions for what to do can be found by pressing "F1". I would recommend a copy of Greg Lehey's The complete FreeBSD (available through cdrom.com etc) if you already haven't bought a copy ~ it will save you a lot of hassles. CR Nick wrote: > To anyone that can help me. > Finally after some trouble I got FreeBSD 2.2.1 ? or something like that on. > It took me ages and afterwards I was just closing down windows so I could > restart. I'm so stupid, that I didn't even look at the default login user > name and password. Now I'm stuffed because It'll stuff up if I try to put it > on again(posibly). > Anyway if anyone can help me out, by emailing me the default user name and > password for freebsd (straight after the installation), I would be very > thankful. > Please return E-mail to nick@key.net.au > Thanks....Nick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- [ Christopher Raven [ E-mail: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk [ ICQ: 2254369 [ To err is human, to power is FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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