On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> I tried my user login name and pass work Linux asks when loading and type in my
>password
> I get:
>
> [caymen@localhost]$
>
Right...your system name is "localhost" because you didn't set
anything different during install.
> I try typing in "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and hit enter.......Nothing. >
>
Right, because that's not your login! Your login is "caymen" We have
this problem all the time with users at the ISP where I work. They
don't understand that their login is DIFFERENT from their email
address.
>
> If I dont first type in my user name for Linux (The one
> you make > when installing) and > just type in my ISP email
> address/username > and password, it will keep asking the same >
> question: > > localhost login
>
> If I type in my user name for Linux, I get"
>
> [caymen@localhost]$
>
> Please help me. I am so close, yet so far away.
>
This is correct. If you want a different username and password, you
have to set them up in Linux. Same thing goes for the domain name. If
you don't want to be @localhost, you have to give Linux a domain
name. This ain't Windoze where you get your domain name
"automagically." See, if Windows had the same "non-gui" login, it'd
have to look similar, because Windows doesn't know what domain it
belongs to any more than Linux when you first turn the system on!
John
