Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 22:16:23 -0500 From: "Randall D. DuCharme" <randyd@nconnect.net> To: "MR BRIAN A NEAL" <UFCK28C@prodigy.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Login: prompt Message-ID: <199609060312.WAA08861@atlantis.nconnect.net>
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Greetings,
FBSD's administrator account is 'root'. Unless you assigned
a password at install time there is none. At login type "root"
and it should log your in with no password. The first thing you should
do after you log in as root is set a password for 'root' and then
create an account for yourself with adduser and assign it to the
group "wheel". From then on, always log in as yourself. If you need
to do any administrative tasks, 'su' to root with the su command. As
root you can do significant damage with a single keystroke totally by
accident.
If none of this makes sense to you, get ahold of one or two of the many
great titles on UNIX use and administration. Greg Lehey's book
"Installing and Running FreeBSD" is a MUST HAVE item in my
opinion, as well as "UNIX System Administration Handbook" (by
Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, and Hein).
Enjoy
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> From: MR BRIAN A NEAL <UFCK28C@prodigy.com>
> To: questions@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Login: prompt
> Date: Thursday, September 05, 1996 10:21 PM
>
> I've installed FreeBSD 2.1.5
> and when it starts up I get a
> Login: prompt, but I'm not sure
> what to do because the install
> didn't allow me to create any
> accounts, and I don't need
> multiple accounts anyway
> because I am using FreeBSD for
> my personal use only. Please
> help!
>
>
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