Once the correct password is input, the message of the day (
<acronym>MOTD
</acronym>) will be displayed followed by a command prompt. Depending upon the shell that was selected when the user was created, this prompt will be a
<literal>#
</literal>,
<literal>$
</literal>, or
<literal>%
</literal> character. The prompt indicates that the user is now logged into the FreeBSD system console and ready to try the available commands.