Hi, I installed CentOS 4.8 (not CentOS 5) on VMware Fusion using an ISO file I downloaded. During the installation, it asked me to enter a user name and its password. I tried to enter root for the user name, but it would not let me do that. So I had to enter a non-root user name. So I did not have the root user name and password when the installation completed. I only had a non-privileged user name, and could not do any sudo work. How can I solve this problem? I noticed that CentOS 5 (not the 4.8 I needed to install) asking to enter the password for root during the installation. But I need to install CentOS 4.8, not 5. Thank you. Jerry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110203/5080d345/attachment-0001.html>
Jerry,
The Centos install first asks for an administrative password and
then as a part of the final configuration script, asks you to create a non-priv
account. You do have a root acct, and you did declare a password. If you forgot
what you might have used then boot into single user mode and change the root
pwd.
-David
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Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 4.8
Hi,
I installed CentOS 4.8 (not CentOS 5) on VMware Fusion using an ISO file I
downloaded. During the installation, it asked me to enter a user name and its
password. I tried to enter root for the user name, but it would not let me do
that. So I had to enter a non-root user name.
So I did not have the root user name and password when the installation
completed. I only had a non-privileged user name, and could not do any sudo
work. How can I solve this problem?
I noticed that CentOS 5 (not the 4.8 I needed to install) asking to enter the
password for root during the installation. But I need to install CentOS 4.8, not
5.
Thank you.
Jerry
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On 2/3/2011 4:43 PM, Y. K. Liu wrote:> Hi, > > I installed CentOS 4.8 (not CentOS 5) on VMware Fusion using an ISO > file I downloaded. During the installation, it asked me to enter a > user name and its password. I tried to enter root for the user name, > but it would not let me do that. So I had to enter a non-root user name. > > So I did not have the root user name and password when the > installation completed. I only had a non-privileged user name, and > could not do any sudo work. How can I solve this problem? > > I noticed that CentOS 5 (not the 4.8 I needed to install) asking to > enter the password for root during the installation. But I need to > install CentOS 4.8, not 5.All CentOS 4.x installations should ask for the root password during installation. And the stupid question must be asked: Are you sure you didn't enter a root password when thinking it was asking for a user password? Try your user password on root and see what happens. IIRC, the installation process is this: 1) Get base installation info including root password 2) Install system 3) Reboot 4) Perform post install setup including at least one user account -- Bowie
At Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:43:14 -0800 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > > > Hi, > > I installed CentOS 4.8 (not CentOS 5) on VMware Fusion using an ISO file I > downloaded. During the installation, it asked me to enter a user name and > its password. I tried to enter root for the user name, but it would not let > me do that. So I had to enter a non-root user name. > > So I did not have the root user name and password when the installation > completed. I only had a non-privileged user name, and could not do any sudo > work. How can I solve this problem? > > I noticed that CentOS 5 (not the 4.8 I needed to install) asking to enter > the password for root during the installation. But I need to install CentOS > 4.8, not 5.CentOS 4's (including 4.8) installer should have ALSO asked for a root password (just like CentOS 5's installer). Both systems use basically the same installer.> > Thank you. > Jerry > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments