local host login ?

reecedeg · 08-09-2004, 09:17 PM

I have installed Red Hat 7 on a Compaq Presario 1621
I am at a screen that says:
Red Hat Linux Release 7.0 (Guinness)
Kernel 2.2.16-22 on an i586

Local host login:

I have tried all of the password account name info I entered plus:
Useradd my name
Passwd my name
Startx
Message says login incorrect
Nothing works. I need help.
Thanks in advance
Reece

Libu · 08-10-2004, 12:36 AM

When u were doing the installation, u would have had to specify the root passwd. So login using that passwd.

Caution: U will be root.

So the first thing u shud do is to create another user (say with ur name) using the useradd command (man useradd). Then logout and login using the new user you created.

jarib · 08-10-2004, 01:00 AM

In otherwords type root at the login and you will be asked for a password

Libu · 08-10-2004, 05:19 AM

well put jarib !! I always have this way of making things sound complicated

reecedeg · 08-10-2004, 05:52 AM

thanks
however I have typed my root password and all the other info I entered at installation and still get login incorrect

k1mgy · 08-10-2004, 06:17 AM

Careful: logins are case sensitive. Both username and password. If you don't remember your root password (username: root) then you may be, as we say, up the creek without a paddle.