This chapter answers some of the most common questions about using
Red Hat Linux that you may ask as you become more familiar with it. From changing
your desktop screen size to troubleshooting package installation problems,
this chapter will ease you step-by-step through some common tasks and get
you on your way.
I have installed Red Hat Linux. After rebooting, I get a message telling
me it needs a localhost login and password. What are these?
Unless you specified a host name for your computer, or received that
information from a network, your Red Hat Linux installation will call your machine
localhost.localdomain by default.
When you get to that initial prompt, it is asking you to log in to
your system. If you created a user account during installation, you can
log in using that user name and password. If you didn't create a user
account during installation, then you can log in as the super user, also
known as root. The root password is the system
password you assigned during installation.
It is highly recommended that you create at least one user account
during installation. If you did not, you can create a new user with the
Red Hat User Manager GUI application or the
useradd command-line utility. For more information,
refer to the Section called Creating a User Account in Chapter 1.
