--- Thomas J Hughes III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am very new at Linux, I have installed the Linux Mandrake OS on my > computer which is a PIII 450. The installation went very well which > surprised me. My question is that when i come to the login screen, I > have a choice of choosing either KDE, Gnome, default...etc. I > understand that they are different desktop environments but i can not > log into anything unless i use the root as my user name. i don't know > what to do here. How do i define a new user? Please don't think this > question is too simple, I am new and I am don't want to mess anything > up by using the root as my login. > There is an option for creating a new user somewhere among your menus in either KDE or GNOME. ===== ============================================================ Richard Wegner - Linux Newbie - [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: Derek Rayne is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER this is just an e-mail address I chose! ============================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text