From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 10:49:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BE1E37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:49:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 85914 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2001 17:59:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sqltest) (151.201.71.153) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2001 17:59:09 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bill Moran To: Rohit Panda , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no root password !!!!!!!! Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:43:01 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010911122930.30920.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010911122930.30920.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01091117430102.10054@sqltest> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Tuesday 11 September 2001 12:29, Rohit Panda wrote: but what happens now is tha at > the login prompt i write root and hit enter and it doesnt ask for my > passwd. If it lets you in, then you skipped a step and did not assign root a password. It is possible to run the system like this, but it's a very bad idea. Log in as root and type "passwd", this will allow you to assign root a password. > and for another user i had created it asks for my passwd but says > incorrect login for my correct password. Remember that usernames and passwords are case-sensitive (i.e. s is different from S, etc) Make sure you really are typing it correctly. If it still doesn't work, log in as root again, and use "password username" to reset it (where "username" is the username, obviously) then try again. Read "man passwd" for more information. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message