[WBEL-users] Re: Installation

[Keith Morse]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Tim Fountain wrote:

> I am new to White Box, and am migrating from W2K & XP.  I have successfully 
> installed the desktop white box but when I go to use the system I am 
> prompted by a user name and password.  I am not logging onto a network or 
> workgroup.  This is a stand alone machine, but is connected to the internet. 

Okay


>   The OS thinks the internet is my domain and wants me to log onto it.  
> Aside from disconnecting the system from the internet, what other ways are 
> there to avoid having to log into the Linux OS?  BTW this is a dual boot 
> system so I hope the Windows sys is not messing everything up on my machine 
> for linux.  Any help would be great.

The term "domain" can be somewhat nebulous and really depends on the 
context of where it's located.  A MS-windows domain? NIS, DNS, Kerberos, 
or many others I'm sure that I don't know about.  I can't tell from the 
info you've provided.   

AFAIK, there is no way to use linux or unix for that matter without 
logging in as the os what designed to be multi-user capable.  The closest 
way I can think of is to null the password for any particular user.  But 
this would be extremely unwise for any network connected pc no matter the 
os it's running.