what do you do when "logging in" into slackware install

I recently installed Slackware a few times, and I started wondering what do you do, when you boot from the Slackware CD, and the script prompts you:

You may now login as 'root'.

Slackware login:



Any comments regarding your action are welcome - we need something to cheer up from day-to-day trouble, don't we?

Type in root, hit enter and then either do fdisk (or cfdisk) and continue the install. Why, what do you do?

scratches head in confusion

I thank slackware for giving me permission to log in...finally.. ;P

Actually. that login is fake. You can just hit ENTER or type anything there and the same thing happens. The installer runs from an non-login shell within an initrd.

Exactly. And that line which reads in the "login" now reads:
read BOGUS_LOGIN;

but AFAI remember, it used to be:

read JUNK;

...

We've been deceived! I, for one, feel insulted by this tomfoolery. All along I've been thinking I logged in as root at install, but it was all one nasty conspiracy, no doubt from Patrick himself in order to undermine the intelligence of Slackers worldwide. I demand compensation!

Compensation can be found in the /etc/rc.d/rc.S script of the install CD initrd.
The relevant part of it says:

#Fake login:  (fooled ya! ;^)
cat /etc/issue
echo -n "slackware login: "
read BOGUS_LOGIN
cat /etc/motd

the humility of it all
:^)

Yes, I accidentally discovered this little detail of slackware install, and while I never before wondered why I'd have to login into an install initrd shell, it now seems to me obvious that the login is fake. But I had no idea before this discovery... And as I now had to install slack a few times, I just laughed conspiratively and hit enter...
And then I got the idea, "Hey, how many people out there know this detail?" And so I posted this poll - to enlighten everybody about this little gem about slackware install...
Happy New Year to everybody!!

I type root, and press enter. I guess I'm such a tool.

Hehe, I see that we tend to be not very humorous in our actions. I am not too surprised to see that a lot of people don't know about this PV's trick (I also didn't until recently), but I am surprised that everyone (including me) who knows the trick just opts for the fastest way - nobody types in anything humorous into the fake login prompt...? I was hoping that people show their attitude towards such jokes from PV by typing in something "unexpected" and then feel important... I didn't know that we all do things in a "minimal effort" style

I never knew this, very interesting. I've been fooled for years .

I've known for years that you didn't actually need to type "root," but I'm not so wise as to question it. I just figured that it was logging in as root for me! It never occurred to me to actually try to login with something else...

:-J

--vonSt

yeah, you "may" now log in as root, but you don't have to. I've known that for a long time, but never thought much of it as being a kind of joke....