Installing Fedora 12

jack craig jcraig at extraview.com
Mon Apr 26 17:00:29 UTC 2010


sure, just do the ctl-f1, login as root, use the user_add cli to create 
your non-root user.

On 04/26/2010 09:54 AM, Nathan Woodruff wrote:
> I seem to believe that it never gave me the option to create a user account.
>
> Can I do it now with out another 6 hour install?
>
> Nathan Woodruff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Steve Berg
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 12:37 PM
> To: Community support for Fedora users
> Subject: Re: Installing Fedora 12
>
>
>    
>> I've downloaded the Fedora 12 desktop edition and I've installed it now
>> three times on a U2 server of ours. Every time after the reboot of the
>> newly
>> installed system, I get the login screen. The first time when I installed,
>> I
>> used a password that I always use as a default, at least I thought, I
>> wasn't
>> 100% sure. I typed in "root" with out the quotes and type in the default
>> password that I always use. "Authentication Failed" and doesn't log on.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Nathan Woodruff
>>      
> By default these days X does not allow root login.  If you switch over to
> a terminal console (e.g. Alt-F2) and try that it should work just fine.
> Did you try to create a user account and login with that during the
> installation?  Once you get the install finish the root/GUI login
> restriction can be disabled if you desire.
>
>    

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