On 2/3/2011 4:43 PM, Y. K. Liu wrote: > Hi, > > I installed CentOS 4.8 (not CentOS 5) on VMware Fusion using an ISO > file I downloaded. During the installation, it asked me to enter a > user name and its password. I tried to enter root for the user name, > but it would not let me do that. So I had to enter a non-root user name. > > So I did not have the root user name and password when the > installation completed. I only had a non-privileged user name, and > could not do any sudo work. How can I solve this problem? > > I noticed that CentOS 5 (not the 4.8 I needed to install) asking to > enter the password for root during the installation. But I need to > install CentOS 4.8, not 5. All CentOS 4.x installations should ask for the root password during installation. And the stupid question must be asked: Are you sure you didn't enter a root password when thinking it was asking for a user password? Try your user password on root and see what happens. IIRC, the installation process is this: 1) Get base installation info including root password 2) Install system 3) Reboot 4) Perform post install setup including at least one user account -- Bowie