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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!eff!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!not-for-mail From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't login as 'root' Date: 23 Oct 1995 14:57:18 +0100 Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <46g6vu$713@ida.interface-business.de> References: <46ccdf$lni@news-e1a.megaweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de Rob Lawrence <yowassup@gnn.com> wrote: >I'm am new to unix os's I have just gotten FreeBSD. I have manuals but >> none >>are just FreeBSD. Everything went well, but I can't login to a shell as >>root, this also keep me from starting Xserver. I have created new users >> and >>they are able to login fine. When I try to login as root it asks me for a >>terminal? I have looked through faq's, man pages, and manuals I see >> nothing >>there. If I try xterm as the terminal I get a Message 'Don't login as >> root >>use su" which i have been doing but without logging in I cannot execute >> any >>applications from root. which means users will not be able to use >> Xwindows, The `terminal type' question is from the tset command. You don't really need it as long as the information about the terminal type in /etc/ttys is correct. The "Don't login as root, use su" is a simple hint that it's not good habit to login as root. Instead, you should login as a regular user, and user su(1) to become root temporarily. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de [private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]