Braindead - lost userid/password - SOLVED

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Re: Braindead - lost userid/password

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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword
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Re: Braindead - lost userid/password

Post by slider »

To find out your user name open a terminal and type:

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whoami
It will give you your username.

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Try this command if you cant use the other:

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awk -F":" '{ print "username: " $1 "\t\tuid:" $3 }' /etc/passwd
Your user name should be somewhere in the list that is displayed in the output.

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