Thank you, Lucas and Aly, for your help. I got the problem resolved now. When I installed CentOS 4.8 on VMware Fusion, I should not have used the VMware default easy installation, which bypassed the installation questions, including setting the root password. After I unchecked the easy installation, I was able to set the root password. Thank you again, anyway. Jerry On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Y. K. Liu <ykliu7 at gmail.com> wrote: > 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/20110203/5a5fe1a0/attachment-0006.html>