<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">i did as you said i got the recovery to come up. i changed the password ! (but) i still do not know what my user name is or how to get it or change it can you (help)???? <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><BR> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri@arinet.org><BR>To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com><BR>Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:11:26 AM<BR>Subject: Re: help<BR><BR>On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM, FRANK SHARROW<BR><<A href="mailto:atexasattitude@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:atexasattitude@yahoo.com">atexasattitude@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> many months ago i had a heart attack and was laid up for many months i am<BR>> just now getting back on line but i can't log on as i have forgotten my user<BR>> name and password can you help me??????<BR>> --<BR><BR>Hi Frank,<BR>Sorry to hear that. Hopefully you are fully recovered now.<BR>So, you mean you forgot your ubuntu logon password?<BR>I think we can workaround that by using the recovery mode.<BR>When booting, press Esc on the boot prompt, it will then give the boot menu.<BR>Choose the recovery.<BR>I believe from there we will be automatically logon, and we can use command: id<BR>Then we can change the password: sudo passwd<BR>HTH<BR><BR>-- <BR>ubuntu-users mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A><BR>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><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>