login and password

[motorhead28]

I just installed redhat 6.0 and after I rebooted, I was promted for a user login and password. I created an admin password during installation, but didn't create a user ID. Where do I get these from. Also, there is an Options button below the logon but it doesn't seem to work. Please Help Me :confused:

[PLBlaze]

To create a regular user account use either useradd or adduser (man adduser or useradd fo help) from command line...if you use gui such as gnome or kde then it may be easer for you to create such an account with their apps, unless you want to edit your /etc/passwd,group or shadow files and do it by hand.Hope this helps.

[motorhead28]

I hope you'll find it within yourself to have patients with me. How do I get to a command line prompt? I'm using redhat 6.0, and when I boot to linux, it gives me a blue screen with a login box that says "Welcome to localhost.localdomain" I tried booting to a linux boot disk, but was dropped off at the same screen described above.

[PLBlaze]

No problem the Linux way :), do CTRL+ALT+F1 thru F12 and you will gain console access after succesful login :cool: .Hope this helps again.

[trekker]

heh heh... no offense... but if I get your problem right, then you must have only used windows98 and not windows NT before you switched to linux.

If you have created an "admin password" during installation, then at the login screen, user name is "root" and password is the "admin password". Then you can get into your system and create a user acct, try not to "root" around in your system. Always login as a normal user and "su" when you need root privileges.

Hope this helps :p

And, I hope I did get your question right... once again, no offense if I'm wrong...

[motorhead28]

no offense taken, and you're quit right. I am very familiar with Win98, not very familiar with NT, although I just bought NT and have had no luck running a dual boot with NT and 98. I am booting my Linux box as I write this and hopefully your advice will help. Thanks

[motorhead28]

Trekker, i now hope you won't take offense to this, but if you were here with me I'd kiss you! I am in, but now what??? :p

[aph3x]

try useradd motorhead28,
then passwd motorhead28

are you a motorhead fan? :eek: Lemmy...

[trekker]

*grin* Glad to be of service but I'll pass on the kiss motorhead28...

Since you are using RH, you can also use linuxconf. It should be one of the menu items under the main menu (something like the Start menu of windows... at the bottom left corner of your desktop manager) Under the "Config" tab, "User accounts", click on "Add". The rest should be intuitive enough.

woo hoo... just noticed... me got a 5-star rating... my guess it's from you.. thanks!

[ 15 March 2001: Message edited by: trekker ]