Gentoo how to log in?

revenge80200 · 03-05-2006, 05:23 PM

Top of the morning all,

I've just install Gentoo from the 2006.0 x86 LiveCD, after the install is complete and I try to reboot I am presented with localhost login and password, which I do not know.

What did I do wrong or how would I go about correcting this? I cannot seem to get around it.

Thanks
Eric.

alunduil · 03-05-2006, 05:50 PM

If you finish reading the gentoo handbook you will be told to log in as root (the passwd you changed in the install process), and create a user account for yourself. If I remember off-hand this is in the second or third to last section of the handbook.

Regards,

Alunduil

revenge80200 · 03-05-2006, 06:00 PM

I'm sorry, but I am still not getting it. When I am promped for localhost and password, I am supposed to enter sudo su -?

I enterd a user account and set the password, though when the install completed it stated that the user account failed to be created.

Eric

victorh · 03-05-2006, 11:54 PM

If you can't login as a normal user, try to login as root.

Once you have done that you can create a new user account

Quote:

# useradd -m -G users eric
# passwd eric
New passwd:
Re-enter passwd