Timothy Murphy wrote: >> 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. >> > > Thanks for your response. > > But as I mentioned, I installed drupal by "sudo yum install drupal", > and was never asked to register an account. > I'll see if I can deduce from the MySQL database > what name and email address have been assigned. > > no, I mean from the web interface.... go to that default webpage, and use the 'create new account' function thats there. the first account thats created is user #1, and is the drupal equivalent of a superuser.