From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 18:38:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 753EB37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (law11-f118.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEE5943FBD for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:38:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nuckingfutsto@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:38:16 -0700 Received: from 24.195.167.45 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 01:38:16 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.195.167.45] X-Originating-Email: [nuckingfutsto@hotmail.com] From: "Gregory Felter" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 21:38:16 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Aug 2003 01:38:16.0872 (UTC) FILETIME=[689E4280:01C35BBB] Subject: Did I do something wrong? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 01:38:17 -0000 I received the information for my dedicated FreeBSD box today from the hosting company. It's an unmanaged box which was supposed to be running 4.8 but is running 5.1 because they said 4.8 would not install (Doubtful to me, sounds like an order mix up) I did as instructed and changed my login password to the account they set for me and the SU password. Next I found that they did a minimal install so through sysinstall I went to post install configurations and loaded in all distribution sets including ports. When this finished I installed my editor of choice, pico. In order to use pico after just installing it you must exit out from root and log in as root again. I typed exit and was back to my account prompt. For some reason I typed uname -a to see what info would show up. After looking at the output I typed su and received back "who are you?" I was surprised at the response so I typed su again, same response. Now, not knowing what to think, I said well I'll try logging in again. I'm still trying to log on! I'm locked out of the box. I know this is rather long but I just want to make sure I didn't do anything wrong. I'm not new to FreeBSD but this really has me puzzled. Did I screw up? Did they make a faulty install? Any thoughts? _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail