From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 5:29:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12803.mail.yahoo.com (web12803.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EF9B37B405 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20010911122930.30920.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.142.70.159] by web12803.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:29:30 PDT Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:29:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Rohit Panda Subject: no root password !!!!!!!! To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-337108917-1000211370=:29858" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0-337108917-1000211370=:29858 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii hi , in my first installation i only had the bin distribution for the minimal installation.then downloaded the other distributions then did custom install -> from dos partition.then i chose the distributions.i chose full sources + doc + xfree86 then i did commit.i dont know why xfree86 did not get installed(maybe there was a problem in my download).after it installed all the distributions ,it asked for any post installation settings and i said no.then i exited form the installation.but what happens now is that at the login prompt i write root and hit enter and it doesnt ask for my passwd.and for another user i had created it asks for my passwd but says incorrect login for my correct password. eagerly waiting for a reply. thanx rohit --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. --0-337108917-1000211370=:29858 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

hi ,

in my first installation i only had the bin distribution for the minimal installation.then downloaded the other distributions then did custom install -> from dos partition.then i chose the distributions.i chose full sources + doc + xfree86 then i did commit.i dont know why xfree86 did not get installed(maybe there was a problem in my download).after it installed all the distributions ,it asked for any post installation settings and i said no.then i exited form the installation.but what happens now is that at the login prompt i write root and hit enter and it doesnt ask for my passwd.and for another user i had created it asks for my passwd but says incorrect login for my correct password.

eagerly waiting for a reply.

thanx

rohit


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