Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:15 -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: >> RTF wrote: >>> Re-hi all, >>> >>> Last night I successfully (apparently) installed OpenSuse 10.2. It was >>> getting late and I let it run its course when I went to bed. This >>> morning it looked like the only thing I needed to do was set username >>> and password but for some reason, it wasn't working. In the interest of >>> time and checking e-mail before I went to work, I went ahead and checked >>> mail via Windows. Tonight, I attempted to boot into OpenSuse but was >>> confronted with the sign-on. I tried what I normally would have used as >>> a root username and password unsuccessfully. The same with my normal >>> username and password. I have not set them but don't know how now to do >>> that? Any clues? It is installed but I have not yet assigned a >>> password for root (nor is root recognized without a password (which I >>> have not yet assigned) and I certainly have not yet assigned a regular >>> username and password. :( >> It's not exactly clear what you did, but it sounds like you just rebooted >> the computer while it was asking for the username/password for the first >> user. Not sure why "it wasn't working". So this means you have no user and >> no password. You can't log in as root from the graphical user interface, > > Root CAN log into the graphical interface, you need to type the name > manually (as well as the root password).
Yup, you're right. Hadn't even actually tried it on openSUSE, as it is almost always disabled these days. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
