Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:11:11 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: glen disley <disleyg@telusplanet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login screen on 5.3 Message-ID: <20041123231111.GA80858@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <41A3C230.2020701@telusplanet.net> References: <41A3C230.2020701@telusplanet.net>
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On 2004-11-23 16:05, glen disley <disleyg@telusplanet.net> wrote: > I just installed Freebsd5.3. After a long compile process and a few > tweeks of Xorg I was able to get a kdm screen prompt. There are only 2 > users on the system, one bing root and the other me (Glen). What I > don't understand is why on the kdm login screen I see Charlie&root as > administrators and Glen as a user. I'm semi familiar with Linux and my > root login is only root no other names. No one else has access to the > computer other then me and I set it up behind a SMC router with a > built in firewall `Charlie &' is the text that appears in /etc/passwd as the real name of the root' user. Obviously, kdm tries to be ``user-friendly'', showing the real name of the user too, and managed to confuse you. No worries. Ignore it or check to see if a configuration option of kdm can change the default user-display style. Welcome to FreeBSD, BTW :-)
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