Timothy Murphy wrote > I am told after jumping through several hoops > "Congratulations, Drupal has been successfully installed. > Please review the messages above before continuing on to your new site." > I removed write permissions from /etc/drupal/default/settings.php > as suggested, and click on "your new site", > which takes me to <http://www.gayleard.com/drupal/>, > where I am invited to login. > I do not recall ever being asked for a drupal username or password, > except for those I gave for the drupal database. > But when I give these I am told, > "Sorry, unrecognized username or password. > Have you forgotten your password?" > On clicking on the last sentence > I am asked for my username or email address. > I don't recall ever giving an email address for drupal, > but I give one now, and click on "Email new password". > IIRC, when you first install it, you register a new account and this account #1 becomes the 'webmaster' account with master privileges. I often call it webmaster. if you're not getting email notifications, its possible you don't have email delivery setup correctly on this machine? fwiw, i'm running several drupal sites, notably http://astronomy.santa-cruz.ca.us/ and http://troop604.org/