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Date:      Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:17:02 +0100 (MET)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        chayfo@goodnet.com (Trent)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Login prompt
Message-ID:  <199603030917.KAA14595@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <31394B2A.6993@goodnet.com> from "Trent" at Mar 2, 96 11:32:58 pm

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> 
> To Whom it may Concern:
> 
> 	I have installed FreeBSD v2.1 on my computer. I changed the ftp 
> username in the options menu to trent. I also changed the password to the 
> same thing just so I could get logged in. When the machine was done with 
> the installation it rebooted and the login prompt came up. I entered my 
> login name and password and it said invalid login. I have reinstalled 
> FreeBSD Three more times since then. I have tried leaving the username 
> and password at the default and even making them exactly 8 characters. 
> Nothing seems to work.

At this time no user has been added. ftp user name is only
for the installation ftp site.

Login as 'root' - and set a password using the passwd command.
You then can add users using the adduser shell script or use
vipw to add users manually.

> 
> Please Help!
> 
> (Trent Shaffer)
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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