Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:08:15 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@earthlink.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login and password Message-ID: <20000610130815.D1197@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <000801bfd2d3$2509e0c0$ba2437d2@glenstan>; from cjc on Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:58:05PM %2B1200 References: <000801bfd2d3$2509e0c0$ba2437d2@glenstan>
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On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:58:05PM +1200, cjc wrote: > I have just installed FreeBSD on a hard drive and after the startup is finished ,it asks for Login and then Password. > Thinking that i could set a login name and password that the system would remember i typed in my surname and used it also as the password. I then got the message "incorrect". > i tried again and the same result.so i cannot go any further until i know if the is a default login and password that can be used.Please let me know what I have done wrong and how to proceed.The version is FreeBSD 2.2.6 Towards the end of your install, were you not asked to enter a root password? If you were and you remember the password, enter 'root' and the password at the appropriate prompts. First thing after that is to add a non-root user for your day-to-day activities, see adduser(8). If you were not prompted for a root password or you forgot it, you need to boot into single-user mode to set it. Geez... been a while since I had to boot a 2.2.x system into single user... It might be easier for all of us if you boot the installation floppy again and go to the option to reset the root password. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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