On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:27:17 -0800 (PST) Chris Blan <christopher_b...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to install yellow dog linux 6.1 but can't seem to log in > once the installation is finished. During the installation I am never > asked to setup a user name. Is there a standard user name everyone > logs in with the first time? Thanks in advance, > Chris > > > No Chris, there isn't. However it is easy to miss that just before the installation proceeds to finish one is asked to create a password for the System Administrator. I"ve always believed this step to be misleading, however the point of the question or expectation is that you or anyone else needs to understand that the System Administrator (also known as root) can control, add, remove and modify everything you just installed -- you (as the sole and primary owner of that computer system may choose one day to execute some -- if not all -- of those functions or tasks at some future date. So take the time to choose a specific password you alone will use to do those special functions -- as root -- sometime in the future. In other words should you ever use the term root as a user name, the password to be associated with it will only be that specific password. Once that is completed the installation proceeds and then after YDL is booting up for the first time (without the DVD used to install YDL) -- in other words YDL is running from the hard drive, then you are asked for a user name and a password to be associated with that user name. This portion of the installation process is important but different. As a user you will not be doing programming or other System Administration or root related tasks -- you will be using YDL to "use" the applications installed. You will as a user "use" Open Office or something else, play Mahjong or Rhythmbox. As a user therefore you should create and remember a unique user name to "login" into YDL with AND create and remember a unique password which is to be used exclusively with that particular and unique user name. Once the above has been defined YDL will be easier to work with in the sense that the operating system will then be clear when you are specifically working in root or user mode. Consider it (the whole procedure) as an oversimplification of who you are but a necessary means of how YDL (or any Linux) will be able to work for you better. All the best... and Happy New Year!! ========= Refranes/Popular sayings: The Taino say:No hay mal que por bien no venga. There is no evil out of which good cannot blossom.
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