From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 07:50:36 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA28290 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 07:50:36 -0700 Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA28280 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 07:50:33 -0700 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id KAA27798; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 10:50:29 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id KAA08977; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 10:50:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 10:50:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Eric Berchtold cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: superuser In-Reply-To: <46.53838.1@bbs.fullcoll.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Eric Berchtold wrote: > heya > Ive been playing around with a copy of FreeBSD V2.0, and I tried > logging on as SU. When I was installing it, it never told me what the > su password was. Do you know what the default would be? Or, what is > the file that I would have to view to see what the password is. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advanced. su is a program that lets you masquerade as another user. If you enter only su, it default to logging you in as root, which is the preconfigured superuser, so you need the root password here. BTW, there is a man page on the su command, take a look at it. One last point here, if you are new to unix, some folks try to do everything as root. That's a major mistake, because root has the ability to do things like ruin your system with an accidental keystroke, which an ordinary user is prevented from. Additionally, there are security safeguards against root trying certain things. I would strongly recommend against running as root all the time, it's a mistake. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0.5-snap-0726) and (301) 220-2114 | n3lxx (FreeBSD 2.0.5-snap-0622) -- Great! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------