I could not login as root. I only had a non-privileged user name. Thanks, Jerry On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Lucas Timm LH <linuxhelper at gmail.com>wrote: > Are you trying to log as root in GDM or in a TTY? > > 2011/2/3 Y. K. Liu <ykliu7 at gmail.com> > >> Hi, >> >> I installed CentOS 4.8 on VMware Fusion 3.1.2. The installation was fine. >> During the installation, it asked me to enter my username and password. I >> tried to enter "root" as the username, but it was not allowed. So I had to >> enter other name for that. >> >> After I logged into CentOS 4.8, I could not do sudo because I was a >> regular user. Could somebody tell me how I can become root? >> >> Thank you. >> Jerry >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-virt mailing list >> CentOS-virt at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >> >> > > > -- > Lucas Timm, Goiânia/GO. > http://timmerman.wordpress.com > > (62) 8198-0867 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20110203/656cfccb/attachment-0006.html>