From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 8 14:12:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from nx5.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE (nx5.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.131.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D93C737B66C for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 14:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dunkelkammer.void (actually dial-142009.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE) by nx5.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE via smtp-local with SMTP; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:12:24 +0200 Received: by dunkelkammer.void (Postfix, from userid 910) id 46DEC22C85; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:10:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dunkelkammer.void (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC54022A71 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:10:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:10:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Walter X-Sender: stefan@dunkelkammer.void To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root access In-Reply-To: <004501c03169$da335c20$8b4810ac@internal.mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, John Terris wrote: > 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 root's name is 'root'. Do you mean FreeBSD 2.2.7? Maybe you should try a more recent version... Regards, SW -- Also, mir ist da noch Einiges unklar... http://transfer.to/dunkelkammer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message