[LBo] Password prompt

Lou Roux lrouxx at sbcglobal.net
Sun Nov 18 00:46:47 CET 2007


Thanks Sam,

That would be the logical thing to do but during the installation 
process at no time did it ask for a user name or a password. That's what 
got me stumped.

Lou



Sam Morgan wrote:
> Lou Roux wrote:
>   
>> Hi again,
>>
>> Well I've re-installed the entire package again and very carefully 
>> followed the instructions. All goes well and then I get a screen that says:
>>
>> Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
>> Kernel 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 on an i686
>>
>> Localhost login:
>>
>>
>> At this point I don't know what to enter as I wasn't prompted for a host 
>> name during installation. If I enter anything the next prompt says:  
>> Password:
>>
>> I'm totally lost at this point as I wasn't prompted for a localhost name 
>> or password during the installation process and of course I can't go any 
>> further with the login process.
>>
>>     
> it is asking for you to enter your user name
> then after you enter the user name you entered during the install
> and it asks for the password
> give it the password you wrote down for that user during the install
>
>   


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