From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 01:11:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA01749 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 01:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA01744 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 01:11:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA14595; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:17:03 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199603030917.KAA14595@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Login prompt To: chayfo@goodnet.com (Trent) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:17:02 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <31394B2A.6993@goodnet.com> from "Trent" at Mar 2, 96 11:32:58 pm Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > To Whom it may Concern: > > I have installed FreeBSD v2.1 on my computer. I changed the ftp > username in the options menu to trent. I also changed the password to the > same thing just so I could get logged in. When the machine was done with > the installation it rebooted and the login prompt came up. I entered my > login name and password and it said invalid login. I have reinstalled > FreeBSD Three more times since then. I have tried leaving the username > and password at the default and even making them exactly 8 characters. > Nothing seems to work. At this time no user has been added. ftp user name is only for the installation ftp site. Login as 'root' - and set a password using the passwd command. You then can add users using the adduser shell script or use vipw to add users manually. > > Please Help! > > (Trent Shaffer) > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de