
194 Welcome to Linux
If you chose not to automatically start your computer in a graphical environment, you’ll find a some-
what daunting, almost blank screen which will show you something like
Red Hat Linux release 6.0
Kernel 2.2 on an i686
login:
You can log in by typing root at the Login: prompt. Then, when Password: appears, type the
password you chose at the time you installed Red Hat Linux 6.0.
Tip: Just like the graphical login screen, don’t expect to see your password “echoed”
when you type in your password. Making sure that your password isn’t seen is just one
of Linux’s many security features.
Now, you’ll find a single shell prompt, which will appear similar to:
[root@localhost root]#
Figure 15.6: A sample shell prompt after your login
This tells you that you’re logged in as root and in the directory called root (as shown in Figure 15.6).
You can exit at any time simply by typing logoff or exit.
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