[ydl-gen] Installation Question

[Derick Centeno]

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:27:17 -0800 (PST)
Chris Blan <christopher_blan at 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!!

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