Jerry,
The Centos install first asks for an administrative password
and then as a part of the final configuration script, asks you to create a
non-priv account. You do have a root acct, and you did declare a password. If
you forgot what you might have used then boot into single user mode and change
the root pwd.
-David
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Y. K. Liu
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 4.8
Hi,
I installed CentOS 4.8 (not CentOS 5) on VMware Fusion using an ISO file I
downloaded. During the installation, it asked me to enter a user name and its
password. I tried to enter root for the user name, but it would not let me do
that. So I had to enter a non-root user name.
So I did not have the root user name and password when the installation
completed. I only had a non-privileged user name, and could not do any sudo
work. How can I solve this problem?
I noticed that CentOS 5 (not the 4.8 I needed to install) asking to enter the
password for root during the installation. But I need to install CentOS 4.8,
not 5.
Thank you.
Jerry
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