Logging In and Shutting Down
Now that you are faced with the login: prompt for the first time, you may be wondering how to get into the system.
At this point on a newly installed system, there is generally only one account to log in to—the administrative account, root. This account is used to manage your system and do things like configure the system, add and remove users, software, and so on. To log in to the account, enter root at the login: prompt and press Enter. You are asked for the password you entered during installation. Enter that password at the password: prompt. The system prompt
[root@localhost] #
appears after you have successfully negotiated the login. The system prompt tells you two things: you are logged in as root, and in ...
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