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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 09:08:22 -0500
From: dh2@netwalk.com (Randall Hopper)
To: japhill6@vt.edu (Jason Phillips)
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Doug White:
 |On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Jason Phillips wrote:
 |> I have finally got freebsd on my system.  the Christmas is
 |> complete. but when it says login and password, I have none.  I tried to
 |> specify a log in a the configurations place where it said add new
 |> users.  it said couldn't open "pw" stopped at 99.  Or something
 |> similar.  how does one specify the login: and Password: ?
 |
 |login as 'root', no password.  Then run 'adduser' and make an account for
 |yourself.  Then use the 'passwd' command and give root a password.
 |Logout, then login as yourself.  Anytime you need superuser access, run
 |'su' and enter the root password when prompted.  Type 'exit' to get back
 |to your account.

Congrats on getting your FreeBSD installation up-and-running!  One
follow-up to Doug's advice -- in order to be able to "su" to root when
logged in as a user other than root (e.g. yourself), you'll probably need
to add yourself to group 0.  You'll know it if you see this error:

    su: you are not in the correct group to su root.

when you try.  If so, log out, log back in as root, edit /etc/group, and
add your username to the group with ID 0.  E.g. change:

    wheel:*:0:root
to:
    wheel:*:0:root,jason

Have fun!

Randall Hopper