Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 01:22:36 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: James Chyn <jchyn@pluto.njcc.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: login Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970109011947.10780A-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <32D4B0A9.34B0@pluto.njcc.com>
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On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, James Chyn wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone please tell me what to do? > > I just installed FreeBSD 2.1.6 without setting system manager's password > then I rebooted from hard disk. Now I don't have the login name and > password to get in. (I tried to get back into installation using the > installation floppy, but "add users" and "setting system manager's > password" didn't seem to be working.) > > Many thanks. > > Jim > > Use the login name "root" with no password. Then use the adduser utility to make a user account for yourself, and use that account instead of the root one. The reason to do that is so that you won't, in a moment of distraction, type something like "rm -rf *" and destroy your whole system. (Don't scoff, it happens even to the smartest of us.) Ben
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