Thank you very much, David, for your help. I found out that when I installed CentOS 4.8 on VMware Fusion, I should not have used the VMware default easy installation. When I unchecked the easy installation, it went through the questions, including setting the root password. So now I can set the root password during the installation. Thank you again, anyway. Jerry On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:02 PM, David Brian Chait <dchait at invenda.com>wrote: > Jerry, > > The Centos install first asks for an administrative > password and then as a part of the final configuration script, asks you to > create a non-priv account. You do have a root acct, and you did declare a > password. If you forgot what you might have used then boot into single user > mode and change the root pwd. > > > > -David > > > > > > *From:* centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] *On > Behalf Of *Y. K. Liu > *Sent:* Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:43 PM > *To:* centos at centos.org > *Subject:* [CentOS] CentOS 4.8 > > > > 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. > > Thank you. > Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110203/da2ff069/attachment-0005.html>