Hi Owen,Thanks for the info. But to enter "adduser" command, I dont have a terminal window. I'm blocked at the username screen which i get when i boot the ubuntu linux. And the username was not created yet. Let me know if i'm missing something. -- Thanks & Regards, Mallik <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Owen Townend <<a href="mailto:owen.townend@gmail.com">owen.townend@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">2008/10/21 steve <<a href="mailto:sfreilly@roadrunner.com">sfreilly@roadrunner.com</a>>: [snip] <div class="Ih2E3d">> > no explanation as to why you werent asked for a username or password, > maybe you forgot? but heres how to correct it. > > boot to the grub screen, watch closely, you will have to press escape > key to get there. choose recovery kernel. in the menu, choose drop to > root shell. use the command useradd followed by the username you want > to add. then the command passwd followed by the username you just > created to create the password. reboot, and login. </div>[snip] Especially as you (OP) sound new to Ubuntu, use `adduser` instead of `useradd` and it will prompt you for a password and other details in a much more friendly way. As the man page states: "useradd is a low level utility for adding users. On Debian, administrators should usually use adduser(8) instead." cheers, Owen. <div><div class="Wj3C7c"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>