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From: gilbert@cs.utk.edu (Steve Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Beginners question
Date: 30 Nov 1994 16:22:45 GMT
Organization: CS Labs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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In-reply-to: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie's message of 30 Nov 1994 11:58:03 GMT
In article <JKH.94Nov30115803@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
> In article <3bh2uj$ftq@shore.shore.net> username@shore.net (Shawn Perkins) writes:
>
> Being new to FreeBSD, and Unix, I have a very basic question,
> What should I log in as for full administrators rights? I tried Root
> but that diddn't seem to do what I had wanted.
>
> Nope, root was correct.
Shawn,
Lesson 1: Unix is case-sensitive. Thus, make sure you are
typing "root", and not "Root". That should solve your problem.
Good luck and have fun.
--
Steve Gilbert Internet: gilbert@cs.utk.edu
Backups, Department of Computer Science
University of Tennessee, Knoxville