Creating users accounts

[jaxrpc]

Hi, i just installed Fedora 5 on my system.....everything went well until the part where it asked me to create a personal user account.....i thought i could log in with root admin so i left it blank and proceed.

When i rebooted into fedora...there is this log in screen which prompts for my username and password but remember? i did not create any. I went into the login manager with my root password but couldn't find feature to add new user.

Are there any ways to solve this problem? Or how can i log in with my root password but i have no username for it....

[banzaikai]

I'm assuming you've learned your lesson about not reading those guides along the side of the window during the Anaconda install.

The fix is to:

Login: root (lower case - the root account is automatically created by Anaconda)
Password: (root password)

If booting up with X (GUI), then hit "Desktop -> System Settings -> Users and Groups", and you can add/edit users from there. This is also where you go to add/remove a user from a group, should you need to.
Save, logout, then login with your user account and su/sudo from that point on.

For command line (CLI), use useradd to set one up.

banzai "access denied" kai

[jaxrpc]

:( i went to read the docs on fedora and found out that the username is root too...... i will read docs more carefully from now on ... thanks