Re: At what point during installation does one enter one's user name?

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<97fc1ae6-a57f-4c53-9124-d49f01c0484f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gary wrote:

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Kurt <k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

During the install, you are asked for the root password. After the
reboot, you're asked for a username (other than root) and password.
Your root password should get you in (log in as user root with the
password you typed during the install). You can add/change/delete
users from there

So what I type in is "user root" (those exact words)

No, just the username which is 'root' (without the quotes)

and then

<root password>
?

Red Hat Linux release 3.0.3 (Picasso)
Kernel 1.2.13 on a Zilog Z80

localhost login:

It's asking for the username here, so you'd enter root

localhost login: root
password: dxb62H6fjM3Fl2IhObbJ2Tub0u1Gw7acXbrr4ggbmczgXlD8b

Opps!!! I shouldn't have showed you the root password ;-) (Actually,
when you log in, the password won't be shown as you type it in.)

Now, you want to use the user admin tools (which may be 'useradd'
or some GUI thing) to add normal users like 'gary' or 'lance' (yes,
the usernames should be lower case only), and use those accounts for
your normal use. The reason is simple - the system trusts 'root' to
know exactly what he is doing. There is no error checking, no "are
you sure" - root says to do 'this' and the systems will do so - even
if that trashes your system.

Old guy
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