Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 09:08:22 -0500 From: dh2@netwalk.com (Randall Hopper) To: japhill6@vt.edu (Jason Phillips) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Mutt.19961226090822.dh2@user.netwalk.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961224164639.245B-100000@localhost>; from Doug White on Dec 24, 1996 16:48:42 -0800 References: <1.5.4.32.19961224194530.006604b4@mail.vt.edu> <Pine.BSI.3.94.961224164639.245B-100000@localhost>
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Doug White:
|On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Jason Phillips wrote:
|> I have finally got freebsd on my system. the Christmas is
|> complete. but when it says login and password, I have none. I tried to
|> specify a log in a the configurations place where it said add new
|> users. it said couldn't open "pw" stopped at 99. Or something
|> similar. how does one specify the login: and Password: ?
|
|login as 'root', no password. Then run 'adduser' and make an account for
|yourself. Then use the 'passwd' command and give root a password.
|Logout, then login as yourself. Anytime you need superuser access, run
|'su' and enter the root password when prompted. Type 'exit' to get back
|to your account.
Congrats on getting your FreeBSD installation up-and-running! One
follow-up to Doug's advice -- in order to be able to "su" to root when
logged in as a user other than root (e.g. yourself), you'll probably need
to add yourself to group 0. You'll know it if you see this error:
su: you are not in the correct group to su root.
when you try. If so, log out, log back in as root, edit /etc/group, and
add your username to the group with ID 0. E.g. change:
wheel:*:0:root
to:
wheel:*:0:root,jason
Have fun!
Randall Hopper
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