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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!psinntp!psinntp!satelnet.org!satelnet.org!usenet From: phcarson@satelnet.org (Phil Carson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: LINUX Date: 24 Jan 1994 21:07:38 -0500 Organization: SatelNET Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2i1uta$jbv@sefl.satelnet.org> References: <2i18f8$jgp@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: sefl.satelnet.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Richard J Rog (rrog@uoguelph.ca) wrote: : Hello: : I have just installed the dos version of LINUX, and am running into some : problems. I know this is the BSD area, but for some reaosn I cannot seem : to subscribe to any of the LINUX news groups... I'm not sure if the names : where changed or anyhting... : The problem i have is durring boot up, it asks for a password, and logon : name, and I don't know how to get onto the system, or change/add logon : names... : Any help would be very apprciated. : Thanks in adv. : Richard Login as 'root' and then hit <enter> when it asks for a password. After that, you'll have to either use the 'useradd' utility to make yourself an alternative account or edit the 'passwd' or 'passwd-' files in /etc . BTW, you might want to use pico instead of vi as it's much friendlier. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Carson | Overlooking the Atlantic from 8 floors up phcarson@sefl.satelnet.org | in beautiful Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------