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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!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: New user question..;-) Date: 8 Jan 1996 12:58:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4cr4dj$pl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4cp7qr$tnj@irk.zetnet.co.uk> 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 phil.burden@zetnet.co.uk (Philip Burden) writes: > initial login.I find I can login as 'root',but BSD tells me to log in > as myself,and not root.Is 'root' the default super-user login name,if > not,what is?.I assume it isn't,since I can't seem to run some > exe's,notably sysinstall.Any help would be appreciated ;-) root is the default administrator. But that's just the reason why you should avoid logging in as root: it's dangerous. Instead, add a regular account for you (e.g. with adduser), put the name of this user at the end of the first line (``wheel'') in /etc/groups, and log in as yourself. Once you need to become root, simply type ``su'' (or ``su root''), do what needs to be done, and exit the administrator shell again. -- 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. ;-)