boot - login failure

Acid · Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 11:18 pm Post subject: boot - login failure

hi guys
ive already completed the installation, the only thing i was doubting about should be in etc/hosname and etc/hosts
i asked about it in the forum and from what i understood
i should make up my own my machinename
so i did which was 'acid' for my domain name i took 'home.nl' coz i have essent provider but i am not very sure if that's what my domain is.

so what happens is that i boot, grub starts with the menu, just like it has to, then kernel i see

Setting Hostname to acid.home.nl...
bla bla bla...
Starting Local...
acid.home.nl login:
Password

it suddenly asks me the login and passowrd and i have no idea what he's talking about

when i try and enter all possible logins and passwords i can think of it says

login(pam_unix)[2026]: check pass; user unknown
login(pam_unix)[2026]: autherisation failure;

pls explain what's happening and how to fix it, coz i am not inside linux yet, can i skip it or smth?

rac · Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 11:40 pm Post subject:

Does 'root' for the login and a blank password work?
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tomas · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 62 Location: Sweden

I assume you didn't add a user yet? If you didn't, log in with "root" (when it asks for login) and the password you've set for it. ... You did set the root password, right? If you didn't do that either, I think you can login without a password (just hit return when it asks for the password). If that won't work, or if you've forgotten your root password, you can boot with your Gentoo CD, chroot into your gentoo system and run passwd.
When you're logged in as root, you can add a user with useradd -m <username>, and set the user's password with passwd <username>.

Acid · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 7:29 am Post subject:

ok, that has solved the problem
thanx