Red Hat LINUX 7.2 Manual page 20

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1.1.1 Logging In As Root
If you did not create a user account during installation, you must log in as root. Regardless of whether
you have chosen a graphical or console login screen, you will have to supply a login account name
and the password associated with that account.
From a shell prompt, for example, you will see something like:
Red Hat Linux release 7.0
Kernel 2. xx on an i686
localhost login:root
Password: yourrootpassword
Unless you have chosen to give your machine its own hostname, which is primarily used in a network
setting, your machine will probably be called localhost.
To log in to the root account, type root at the login prompt and press
password you chose during installation at the password prompt and press
Figure 1–1 The Graphical Login Screen
If you see a shell prompt (instead of the graphical desktop as shown in Figure 1–1, The Graphical
Login Screen) you can start the X Window System by typing startx as follows:
[root@localhost /root]# startx
Chapter 1:Getting Started
. Then type the root
[Enter]
.
[Enter]