Go here for your solution: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/admin/arecov.html#Password It even gives the commands you'll need to know for the VI editor, which can be quite troublesome for us newbies :) On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, =?iso-8859-7?Q?=CA=F9=ED=F3=F4=E1=ED=F4=DF=ED=EF=F2=20=D0=E1=F5=EB=DC=EA=EF=F2?= wrote: Greetings from Greece......... I am really new to Linux . Imagine that I have just completed the Mandrake instalation . Well , you are going to laugh with my problem but maybe can also help(?) During the installation I chose no login or passwords and didn't add any users. It's just me at home! But after the boot sequence and all that command line screens , just before the enviroment is loaded , it prompts for login and password . I tried to leave the fields blank but with no result. Please if you could save me from this situation!!! (of course I don't know any line commands) Thanx for your time :-)