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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!satisfied.apocalypse.org!news2.near.net!lard.ftp.com!news-control From: Shishir Belbase <shishpop@ftp.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Newbie needs help Date: 12 Feb 1996 15:38:26 GMT Organization: FTP Software, Inc. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4fnmti$2qv@lard.ftp.com> References: <4fmns7$h2e@news1.usa.pipeline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: everest.ftp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 32bit) To: franmi19@usa.pipeline.com >franmi19@usa.pipeline.com(Matt SanMig) wrote: >Hello to the people out there! > I've just installed Freebsd rel. 2.1.0 by way of floppies. System >boots up fine but I get a prompt for login? and password? >Is there a secret to this or I did a wrong installation? > You did nothing wrong. Just login as "root" and it should not ask you for a password becasue it is a new installation. Once you are in, change your ROOT password with the "passwd" command. shishir