YDL Cant use created logins after install

[Brian Knoblock]

I had the same problem , on TWO different Macs, an iMac DV using the text
based installer and the GUI installer on an iBook2 12.
Installs great but no users.
So..... when you are installing , just create your root password then when
the install is done, login as root, goto the system tools GUI , users &
groups and create a user for yourself. Log out and log back in as your new
user. FYI whenever I logged out of root on the iMac DV, then screen would
just go black, but a forced reboot showed my new user still was there to log
in as .

Brian Knoblock


on 6/8/03 2:01 PM, yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com at
yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> 
> Message: 2
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 17:21:49 -0400
> Subject: password and username problems
> From: toehead2@juno.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
> I installed YDL 3.0 on my powermac 8500 and it worked pretty well. The
> text based installer seemed to work without trouble.however, when it
> asekd for my user name and password after install, there was a problem. I
> made two accounts during install, the root and a user name. I tried both
> of these at the login screen, exactly as I typed them, But they didn't
> work. Sooo, I reinstalld linux. This time I was extra carefull. I wrote
> down the names and passwords. However, you guessed it, they didn't work.
> Am i doomed to never use linux? PLEase advise.