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190 Welcome to Linux

15.2 The Root of the Matter

When your Red Hat Linux system starts, you’ll see an array of messages speeding past you on the

screen. Many of these messages simply tell you what services are starting on your computer.

Tip: Want to read those startup messages more closely? At a shell prompt, type dmesg

| more.You’ll be able to read the ﬁle one screen at a time. To move forward, press the

Spacebar ;toquit,press Q .

Finally, we’ll come to “the login prompt” (as shown in Figure 15.3).

You’ll ﬁnd:

Password:

At this point, some new users can easily feel rattled, but don’t panic. Instead, think back: When you

installed Red Hat Linux 6.0, you were asked for a root password.

Figure 15.3: A sample screen of the graphical login prompt

In detail, that is the password you were asked to choose to log in to your root account. When you

root account, unlike all other accounts for your system, has access to everything. Also known as the

superuser, the root account can control everything the system does.

Go ahead and login; at the Login: prompt just type:

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