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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!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato!status.gen.nz!pinnacle.co.nz!not-for-mail From: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New user question..;-) Date: 9 Jan 1996 08:54:18 +1300 Organization: Pinnacle Software Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4crspa$hs5@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> References: <4cp7qr$tnj@irk.zetnet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tui.pinnacle.co.nz X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) In <4cp7qr$tnj@irk.zetnet.co.uk> phil.burden@zetnet.co.uk (Philip Burden) writes: >Ok,I'm new to both Unix and FreeBSD,but decided to take the plunge to >learn both,Having managed to get the install working,even via the >alpha IDE cdrom driver,the single pressing problem I have now id the >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? It is. It's just that for good sysadmin, it's better to do very little while logged in as root. The common practice is to work as a lowly non-root user, and only su'ing to root when you need to update/install/ configure something. The root account is rarely used. However, you can choose to ignore the message by commenting out the line in .login. -- VS-LBH-OBGURERQ-GB-QRPELCG-GUVF-LBH'YY-WHFG-SVAQ-GUNG-VG'F-WHFG-N-G BGNYYL-ZRNAVATYR[Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>]FF-ZRFFNTR-QRF VTARQ-GB-QENJ-VA-CRBCYR-JVGU-ABGUVAT-ORGGRE-GB-QB-TRG-N-YVSR-JVYYLN