From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 19:26:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA26993 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 19:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA26987 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 19:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00247; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 19:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 19:26:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Andre Champagne cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <3.0b16.32.19961002213236.006b12c0@ican.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Andre Champagne wrote: > This might look stupid but I just installed FREEBSD 2.1 on my > machine and it ask me a logon and password prompt. When I installed it I > didn't gave any logon name and didn't select any password. Is there a way > to override this or will I have to re-install everything. Sorry for the > question I'm a new user of this kind of operating system and I want to > learn it. The default username is 'root' with no password. Once you get logged in run 'adduser' and make an account for yourself. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major