Date: 30 Jan 2004 08:53:39 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "chuck" <chuckepl@core.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: login Message-ID: <44ptd1y23g.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <000101c3e611$4aee0050$0100a8c0@dads> References: <000101c3e611$4aee0050$0100a8c0@dads>
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"chuck" <chuckepl@core.com> writes: > Hi, I have freebsd 4.8 and finley got it installed but I can't get past the login.... When I installed it it asked for a password and I did enter one but it never seems to work. I am running a HP Pavillion XE738. I reinstalled 4 times but can't get past the login? Did you create a user account? If not, the password you made belongs to the "root" account. If you failed to create the password properly, then the root account might still have a blank password (i.e., just hit return). See the FreeBSD Handbook description of "The Superuser Account" <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users-superuser.html> and "Modifying Accounts" <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users-modifying.html>
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