Hi Guys, Picked up a Next Slab yesterday ... complete with a couple boxed versions of NextStep. Got it to boot up - It was configured to prompt for a username and password - which of course I didn't have. I managed to restart it into single-user mode, and used "passwd root" to change the root password. I also looked at /etc/passwd and noted that "me" didn't have a password (blank field). I did confirm that after "passwd root" the encrypted string in /etc/passwd was changed. On restarting in multi-user mode, I was still unable to login to the graphical interface - neither "root" with the password I had set, or "me" with no password would work. Restarted in single-user mode - this time I dug around on the net and found information to use "nu -m" to set the password. I reset the root password (again), and also reset the "me" password to a null string. Looking at /etc/passwd I noted that the password field for "me" was no longer blank but now has an encrypted field (isn't no password supposed to be represented by a blank field). Now the system boots up in multiuser mode and automatically logs in as "me" - so I got to play with NextStep which is kindof interesting (mouse is painfully slow however). Ideally, I'd like to have it prompt for login name so that I could login as either root or me - anyone know: - How to configure it back to having a login screen - Wny I couldn't login as "root" at the graphical interface after I had just set the password (and yes, I checked that the password was entered correctly) Thanks, Dave -- dave06a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html

Hi Guys, Picked up a Next Slab yesterday ... complete with a couple boxed versions of NextStep. Got it to boot up - It was configured to prompt for a username and password - which of course I didn't have. I managed to restart it into single-user mode, and used "passwd root" to change the root password. I also looked at /etc/passwd and noted that "me" didn't have a password (blank field). I did confirm that after "passwd root" the encrypted string in /etc/passwd was changed. On restarting in multi-user mode, I was still unable to login to the graphical interface - neither "root" with the password I had set, or "me" with no password would work. Restarted in single-user mode - this time I dug around on the net and found information to use "nu -m" to set the password. I reset the root password (again), and also reset the "me" password to a null string. Looking at /etc/passwd I noted that the password field for "me" was no longer blank but now has an encrypted field (isn't no password supposed to be represented by a blank field). Now the system boots up in multiuser mode and automatically logs in as "me" - so I got to play with NextStep which is kindof interesting (mouse is painfully slow however). Ideally, I'd like to have it prompt for login name so that I could login as either root or me - anyone know: - How to configure it back to having a login screen - Wny I couldn't login as "root" at the graphical interface after I had just set the password (and yes, I checked that the password was entered correctly)