user name

[Darren Mansell]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:19 -0500, Jim Baldyga wrote:
> Hi, 
> I'm a complete newbie at Ubuntu, and I set up a server about 9 months
> ago, and cannot for the life of me find the username and password.  I
> was able to get into GRUB and change my password, but I haven't quite
> figured out how to change the username?  Can you help. 
> 
> The version I am using is desktop version 6.06
> 
> thanks -Jim 
> 
> p.s. Sorry real bonehead move losing the information on my part,
> thought I would remember it.  Guess not.

Hi. The easiest way I can think of is to boot from a live CD, mount your
hard disk (sudo mount /dev/*da1 /mnt) then vi the /etc/passwd file.