From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 20:17:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA09612 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 20:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [206.54.227.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA09597 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 20:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from win95 (dial233.nconnect.net [206.54.227.233]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA08861; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 22:12:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199609060312.WAA08861@atlantis.nconnect.net> From: "Randall D. DuCharme" To: "MR BRIAN A NEAL" Cc: Subject: Re: Login: prompt Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 22:16:23 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, FBSD's administrator account is 'root'. Unless you assigned a password at install time there is none. At login type "root" and it should log your in with no password. The first thing you should do after you log in as root is set a password for 'root' and then create an account for yourself with adduser and assign it to the group "wheel". From then on, always log in as yourself. If you need to do any administrative tasks, 'su' to root with the su command. As root you can do significant damage with a single keystroke totally by accident. If none of this makes sense to you, get ahold of one or two of the many great titles on UNIX use and administration. Greg Lehey's book "Installing and Running FreeBSD" is a MUST HAVE item in my opinion, as well as "UNIX System Administration Handbook" (by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, and Hein). Enjoy ---------- > From: MR BRIAN A NEAL > To: questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Login: prompt > Date: Thursday, September 05, 1996 10:21 PM > > I've installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 > and when it starts up I get a > Login: prompt, but I'm not sure > what to do because the install > didn't allow me to create any > accounts, and I don't need > multiple accounts anyway > because I am using FreeBSD for > my personal use only. Please > help! > > > ____ > s u p e r v i s o r > I take you where you want to go > I give you all you need to know > I drag you down, I use you up > 1 9 4