user name
Nils Kassube
kassube at gmx.net
Wed Dec 5 20:46:55 UTC 2007
Jim Baldyga wrote:
> 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.
Boot into recovery mode - then you are logged in as root. Enter the
command:
cat /etc/passwd
There are all the usernames known to the system and some additional
information you don't need. From that file you should remember the
username. If you don't remember the password you can change it with this
command:
passwd username
It will ask for a new password for the user.
Nils
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