On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:15 -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > RTF wrote: > > Re-hi all, > > > > Last night I successfully (apparently) installed OpenSuse 10.2. It was > > getting late and I let it run its course when I went to bed. This > > morning it looked like the only thing I needed to do was set username > > and password but for some reason, it wasn't working. In the interest of > > time and checking e-mail before I went to work, I went ahead and checked > > mail via Windows. Tonight, I attempted to boot into OpenSuse but was > > confronted with the sign-on. I tried what I normally would have used as > > a root username and password unsuccessfully. The same with my normal > > username and password. I have not set them but don't know how now to do > > that? Any clues? It is installed but I have not yet assigned a > > password for root (nor is root recognized without a password (which I > > have not yet assigned) and I certainly have not yet assigned a regular > > username and password. :( > > It's not exactly clear what you did, but it sounds like you just rebooted > the computer while it was asking for the username/password for the first > user. Not sure why "it wasn't working". So this means you have no user and > no password. You can't log in as root from the graphical user interface,
Root CAN log into the graphical interface, you need to type the name manually (as well as the root password). > as it is generally consider a security hole to allow it. It is considered to login ALL the time as root to be the security hole. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
