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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!arco!news.utdallas.edu!news.tamu.edu!baja.pacificrim.net!tsunami.ixa.net!news3.net99.net!news.cais.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: myname: Date: 7 Dec 1995 23:26:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4a7t7g$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4a5075$o8l@cdc2.cdc.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 craigt@cdc.net (Craig Thompson) writes: > I'm new to FreeBSD. After installing and booting with BootEasy, I > logged in as root. It said to use "su" and not root. Then I was given This means you should log in as a regular user and use su(1) to temporarily become root. The messages is clearer in 2.1R. > a myname: prompt. Nothing I typed would do anything. The myname: prompt (ain't it ``myname#'' actually?) means you didn't configure your host name yet. It's not a sign of not working correctly however. > Any help on this? I also tried logging in under another account/name I > had set up. Same prompt/same thing. What exactly doesn't work? What's the system telling you? Please elaborate. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)