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#! rnews 2440 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.alpha.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!oleane!pipex!demon!not-for-mail From: Didier Derny <didier@aida.remcomp.fr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: login as root Date: 28 May 1995 12:00:10 +0100 Organization: Demon Internet News Service Lines: 44 Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <199505280947.LAA00550@aida.remcomp.fr> References: <3q8c44$9rf@detroit.freenet.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dispatch.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posting-Host: pancake.remcomp.fr ac381@detroit.freenet.org (Michael Marson) wrote: > >(putting on the asbestos suit) > >OK, I have been trying to install FreeBSD 2.0 from the Infomagic CD-ROM, >and 2 errors are occurring: > >1) XFree86-3.1 install halts and crashes during extraction. I have not been > able to get it to fully install, on multiple attempts. Other portions > of BSD have installed correctly including the kernel. during the install procees of X11 FreeBSD switch to the ALT-F2 screen to ask you many questions. Thats why it the installtion stops on the ALT-F1 screen. Try switching back and forth between ALT-F1 and ALT-F2. > >2) I have been unable to determine the default password for "su", which > is what BSD reports I must login as when I try to login as "root". > All seemingly obvious passwords (<enter>, "1", "123", etc) have failed. > As far as I can remember there is no password for su. but I think that you have to belong to the wheel group to be able to use su. I've added my login name for the wheel group in /etc/group file and now it works fine. >I have read through the various FAQs and info pages and cannot seem to >find anything that addresses such a seemingly significant problem. > >Any help, suggestions? No flames, please, as I am doing my darndest... >(in the time-honored Christian tradition) <G> > >Thanks, >Mike >-- > >Michael Marson ac381@detroit.freenet.org > >"The fun you've demanded is now mandatory" -Jello Biafra -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Didier Derny didier@aida.remcomp.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------