Your username is the name by which you log on via a console. To view your username, open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T). Your username will be the text before the at symbol (@).
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How to change the default user name from ubuntu to something else on EC2 AMI
How can I create a new ubuntu AMI so that when a new instance is created the SSH credentials are copied under a different user than ubuntu (e.g. /home/administrator/.ssh/)?
In short, I need to be ...
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How to change the username and computer name?
I clone my No.1 OS in VMware, the username and computer name are node1, now i clone it and want to make the cloned one's username and computer name became node2. how can i do ?
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How do I remove the unity 2D option in lightdm (login sceen) in ubuntu 12.04?
Because I wish to view my full username at login, I want to remove the "Unity 2D" option at the login screen. Currently the last part of the username (after the 20th digit) is hidden behind the ...
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Changed username. Now I cannot log on or view my previous files
I want to change my username and followed the instructions from How do I change my username? by creating a temp user with admin privileges. While logged in as temp, I did :
sudo usermod -l newname ...
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What is the attribute used to display the username for lightdm? Is it something I can change?
Right now it looks like my username is being displayed based on the sn LDAP attribute. I'd prefer it to be displayName or gecos, is that something I can configure either via lightdm or ldap.conf?
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problem sharing printer via samba in Ubuntu server 12.04
I have cannon ImageRunner 1133 I want to share it through samba with cups server installed on Ubuntu server 12.04
it works all fine I installed samba and cups server ubuntu and windows clients can ...
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my User not a part of any system group
i was trying something on my ubuntu 12.04 ...
basically trying to get my PLex mediaserver to detect movies from network shares
and i thought to add my user and root to group plex that the server ...
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changed username in user account and now am not in sudo
I changed my username in the "user account" screen and now i cannot install programs. I also noticed that my home directory still carries the name of the old user. how do i fix it please/
