Re: Urgent newbie question
Kim Cheung wrote: I have a need to know how to log on to a FreeBSD system installed in my notebook by a programmer. He told me that the UserID should be root and then gave me the password. When I booted up FreeBSD, I entered root as instructed. Unfortunately the next thing that happens is that I get thrown to a command proompt #TEST - rather then a password prompt. I have an urgent need to get into this system and the programmer is oversea and hasn't respond yet. Could somebody please help and email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] URGENT URGET!!! Thanks You are logged in. Apparently the programmer misinformed you about the root password ... there isn't any. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Urgent newbie question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 14. März 2003 23:11 schrieb Kim Cheung: > I have a need to know how to log on to a FreeBSD system installed in > my notebook by a programmer. He told me that the UserID should be > root and then gave me the password. When I booted up FreeBSD, I > entered root as instructed. Unfortunately the next thing that > happens is that I get thrown to a command proompt #TEST - rather then > a password prompt. That looks like the is no password. The "TEST #" (I think that was the prompt you see, but of course it can anything else, too!) ist the prompt you got after that. I am just wondering what the one, who installed that computer, wants to do. a) It isn't a good idea to work as root b) It is always a good idea to set up XFree. Normaly users are glad, if they can log in in a graphical system I hope I was able to help you. With kind regards, Konrad - -- Konrad Neitzel Tel: 0172 / 689 31 45 Fax: 069 / 90 50 99 53 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+cs8BxlHQ37B9RLMRAhnLAJ95+LJn6+GstPMGdhZ6tedZICXhjACbBfQt pMDl2WkYx1bgrqoN0Vu3qOg= =0ksP -END PGP SIGNATURE- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Urgent newbie question
I have a need to know how to log on to a FreeBSD system installed in my notebook by a programmer. He told me that the UserID should be root and then gave me the password. When I booted up FreeBSD, I entered root as instructed. Unfortunately the next thing that happens is that I get thrown to a command proompt #TEST - rather then a password prompt. I have an urgent need to get into this system and the programmer is oversea and hasn't respond yet. Could somebody please help and email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] URGENT URGET!!! Thanks Kim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
