From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 7:25:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD5637B42C for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 07:25:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13Wg7O-000KRT-00 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:24:02 +0300 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:24:02 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What's the difference between Login ID and UID ? Message-ID: <20000906172402.A74154@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.org References: <39B58DAE.B48A55B0@netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <39B58DAE.B48A55B0@netzero.net>; from Benedict Miller on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 07:19:58PM -0500 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 5:22PM up 9 days, 6:12, 5 users, load averages: 0.49, 0.40, 0.37 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Benedict Miller : [000906 03:13]: Benedict Miller>I have been able to load the system but when I try to login I get 'Login Benedict Miller>incorrect' message. what am I doing wrong ?. Also I did not see where I Benedict Miller>was supposed to enter my user id and password even as a system admin. Try login: root password: blank 'blank' means just press enter when prompted for password ;-) Then change the root passwd to whatever you like and add user accounts. I suspect that is where you are stuck Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. -Larry Gelbart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message