Thank you very much, David, for your help.<br><br>I found out that when I installed CentOS 4.8 on VMware Fusion, I should not have used the VMware default easy installation. When I unchecked the easy installation, it went through the questions, including setting the root password. So now I can set the root password during the installation.<br>
<br>Thank you again, anyway.<br>Jerry<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:02 PM, David Brian Chait <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dchait@invenda.com">dchait@invenda.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Jerry,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">                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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">-David</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org" target="_blank">centos-bounces@centos.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org" target="_blank">centos-bounces@centos.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Y. K. Liu<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:centos@centos.org" target="_blank">centos@centos.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [CentOS] CentOS 4.8</span></p></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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?<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Thank you.<br>Jerry</p></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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