On a web site, I noticed that when installing CentOS 5.4 (not the 4.8 I installed), it asked to enter the password for the root. However, I need to install CentOS 4.8, not the 5.4. During the installation of 4.8, it would not let me enter root for the username. So I could not create root username at that time, and I only had a non-privileged regular username. Thanks, Jerry On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Y. K. Liu <ykliu7 at gmail.com> wrote: > 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/c9371e45/attachment-0006.html>