user name

[Aart Koelewijn]

Op wo, 05-12-2007 te 15:19 -0500, schreef Jim Baldyga:
> 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.

If you are able to boot your server from a live cd you can then mount
your root partition and look at /etc/passwd. There all your users are
listed, the one you want will have a id (third field) of 1000 or maybe
1001 or 1002

Good luck
Aart