From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 8 13:53:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6BC37B66E for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 13:53:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunshine (fw-1-e3.atl3.mindspring.net [207.69.227.161]) by granger.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA10917 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 16:53:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <004501c03169$da335c20$8b4810ac@internal.mindspring.com> From: "John Terris" To: Subject: root access Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 16:26:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_003D_01C03144.89DA5BE0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01C03144.89DA5BE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I installed BSD 2.2.7 and everything went fine. . . .except for the = fact that I can't seem to get root access. I set up my user login info = just fine, but I wasnt prompted for root login setup during config, only = password (which I did config). I am TOTALLY new to BSD so I'm thinking = that it was just my inexperience. How do you set up root login (name = only, not password) during install? Can you config that after install? = How? thanks, john terris =20 ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01C03144.89DA5BE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

I installed = BSD 2.2.7 and=20 everything went fine. . . .except for the fact that I can't seem to get = root=20 access. I set up my user login info just fine, but I wasnt prompted = for=20 root login setup during config, only password (which I did config). I am = TOTALLY=20 new to BSD so I'm thinking that it was just my inexperience. How do = you set=20 up root login (name only, not password) during install? Can you config = that=20 after install? How?

thanks,

john terris =

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