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Date:      Fri, 17 Jan 1997 09:35:16 +1000
From:      Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au>
To:        Jimmy <jaarcher@vt.edu>
Cc:        questions freebsd <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: login/password
Message-ID:  <32DEBB34.2C9D@shoal.net.au>
References:  <3.0.1.32.19970116160040.006779c0@mail.vt.edu>

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You should be able to log in as root with no password, then add a user using 
adduser. (add yourself to the wheel group) change root password and log in as 
yourself. if you want priv then su

hope this helps
andrew perry
andrew@shoal.net.au

Jimmy wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>    I just finished installing FreeBSD on my computer.  When I rebooted, it
> asked me for a login and password.  I never set anything up to have one.
> Now I can't get into the BSD system.  How can I get it to go in without a
> login and password and can I disable the feature.  Thank you.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Jimmy Archer
> jaarcher@vt.edu
> http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/~jaarcher



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