Questions tagged [username]
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 (@).
164
questions
146
votes
9
answers
582k
views
How can I find out my user name?
How do I know my username? I've installed Ubuntu, but I don't know my username, only my password. I can't access my laptop and it can't be opened.
- 1,479
134
votes
6
answers
223k
views
What is the purpose of the 'nobody' user?
After I read List all human users I noticed that there is a user account named 'nobody' in my Ubuntu system.
Also I noticed that I can login in this account from terminal using the following command ...
- 170k
26
votes
5
answers
100k
views
How can I delete a mail account in Thunderbird?
I missed one letter of my user name for my mail when add an account to Thunderbird. My mail is reachable in webmail with my browser, but is unreachable in Thunderbird.
How do I delete an email ...
- 287
24
votes
4
answers
139k
views
Is there a single line command to do `su`?
I can do an su with su <username> and it asks for my password. Is there a password parameter for su such that i wont be prompted for a password?
e.g. su <username> -p <password>
- 2,927
16
votes
6
answers
16k
views
Do not display user name in the panel
In Unity the user name is shown in the panel. Is is possible to make it so that it is not displayed? For example it would be nice if only the icon but not the user name were displayed.
- 18.2k
16
votes
2
answers
41k
views
How do I change the name that is displayed when I login?
When installing Ubuntu it asked me for a name. I entered it as name (space) lastname. Now when I get to login screen, it greets me by that name. I want to change it, in fact to remove last name.
- 161
15
votes
1
answer
52k
views
How to safely change username and hostname?
I installed a fresh Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.3 today, but I just notice that I reversed the username and hostname during installation.
To illustrate this, when I open a terminal, the prompt looks like :
...
- 954
13
votes
2
answers
125k
views
How to change the display name on the Terminal? [closed]
When I open the terminal, the username and host name are displayed to the left of the typing area like this:
administrator@administrator:~$
What specific steps do I take to set custom values?
- 177
10
votes
1
answer
5k
views
Getting Full User Name
How do I look up my full user name in Ubuntu? I want this information to propagate to the environment variables GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL.
- 703
10
votes
4
answers
5k
views
How to find out who is using the physical console?
I would like to use a script to find out the username - of the user who is currently on the physical console (who has command of the keyboard, mouse and graphical display)?
I do not just want to ...
- 36k
9
votes
2
answers
2k
views
Make a .sh that sets new username, hostname and password
I am distributing a VM to my students for a beginners programming course. For speed, instead of getting them to install Ubuntu from scratch, I'm planning to give them a fully set up image that they ...
- 93
8
votes
1
answer
3k
views
How to change 'Your Name'?
I'm new to Ubuntu 14.10, and I want to change the 'your name' (appear at the time of Installation) from hanu to Hanu in Terminal, i.e., hanu@4268 to Hanu@4268.
8
votes
5
answers
81k
views
How to change administrator username?
I have accidentally typed my name wrong when I created the administrator account. Although I managed to change the user name at the login screen, I am unable to rename the /home/oldusername to /home/...
- 273
8
votes
3
answers
14k
views
How to rename a user safely?
I've misspelled user name when installing Ubuntu and would like to rename if possible. How can I safely change my user name?
- 57.1k
8
votes
2
answers
564
views
What is the logic behind the user name restrictions in *buntu?
In Fedora, I use my preferred account name, which happens to be a fully qualified domain name. By using a fully qualified domain name as my user name across most of my accounts (both on my own ...
- 81
7
votes
3
answers
27k
views
why is there no name showing at the command line?
a hopefully simple one here, I don't know why there's no username at the $ when a new account is added and you login?
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686)
* ...
- 75
7
votes
4
answers
5k
views
how can I configure my live (x|l|k)ubuntu to: have my username and NOT autologin
I am playing around with the ISO image of a few Ubuntu derivatives - which should be fairly similar to Ubuntu. The version is 14.04.1 64bit. The idea here is to create a custom live USB stick, based ...
- 1,440
6
votes
1
answer
2k
views
How can I make Indicator Session only show my username and not my full name?
My panel has a lot of indicators, and my full name is large. Is there a way to set Ubuntu 11.10 to behave like Ubuntu 11.04 and only show my username?
- 923
6
votes
4
answers
4k
views
Graphic login screen displays login name instead of full user name
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.1. Recently (I haven't noticed exactly when), the graphic login screen of Ubuntu started showing the login names (the first field in the /etc/passwd file) instead of the full ...
- 10.5k
5
votes
3
answers
7k
views
Where, in Ubuntu's files, is stored the full name of a user?
Usually the users have a full name associated to them, where is that stored?
- 151
5
votes
1
answer
8k
views
How to restore/add previous user account
I've recently fixed a broken installation by reinstalling Ubuntu with a new username, and thankfully my old account survived (yay). Now I'd like to add my old account back to Ubuntu. Note that I'm not ...
- 569
5
votes
1
answer
6k
views
Samba: Share directory with a specific Windows 10 user without password required
I would like instructions for creating a Samba share that can only be accessed by a specific Windows 10 user without a password required.
I have read some tutorials and, while I can easily create a ...
- 263
5
votes
1
answer
20k
views
su: user does not exist or the user entry does not contain all the required fields
In Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS I usually log in as a non-privileged domain user. If I need to perform an administrative task (in a terminal window), I have previously used "su" to change to a ...
- 316
4
votes
1
answer
4k
views
Upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04 with wrong user name and can't access any files
I cannot login to the old username because it does not exist on the login screen.
I cannot recreate the old username because I don't have root privileges.
I have tried many methods of getting to root ...
- 123
4
votes
1
answer
849
views
My name no longer appears on gnome-panel
I booted up my laptop this morning to find my name no longer appears beside the power off button in the top right hand corner of the top gnome panel:
I tried deleting and re-adding the indicator ...
- 2,271
4
votes
2
answers
3k
views
How to change my user or computer name which appeares before each command in the terminal window? [duplicate]
Is there any way to change the name which appears before every command line in the terminal window? If so, then how? As shown below, my current one is way too long and takes up a lot of space in each ...
- 43
4
votes
2
answers
3k
views
What is the best way to secure my EC2 server in regards to the SSH?
I have a Amazon ec2 instance, and was curious on if I should change the username (the default is ubuntu) or not?
Since you need a public SSH key in order to access the server, I don't think you do, ...
- 60.6k
3
votes
1
answer
11k
views
Is it too easy to access root in Ubuntu on WSL?
I forgot my Ubuntu user's password in WSL, but I was able to reset it by:
Opening a CMD shell
wsl -u root, then (inside Ubuntu), passwd my_username
I was able to change my password without providing ...
- 51
3
votes
1
answer
421
views
How can I remap usernames when printing to a shared printer?
At work my group currently use self maintained network printers. We also run our own self contained Linux network for some members of the group. It all works beautifully. The management has decided ...
- 1,384
3
votes
1
answer
4k
views
Hide user list from logon page in Ubuntu/Xubuntu 11.10
I'd like to add a little bit more security on my laptop that is running Ubuntu 11.10 with xfce environment. The problem is that once the computer is turned on a list of users is displayed for me to ...
- 33
3
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Login loop after changing username
I'm using 14.04. Basically I changed my machines name (via root) from x@x to y@y. Problem is after doing this I get stuck in a login loop - I enter my details screen goes black and returns me to the ...
- 31
3
votes
1
answer
2k
views
How can the username be removed from the lock screen?
When the lock screen is active (it can e.g. be activated with Ctrl+Alt+L) the username is shown. How can I remove the username from the lock screen? I want the lock screen to simply not display the ...
- 18.2k
2
votes
2
answers
8k
views
usermod change the username
I tried this command
root@node1:~# usermod -l node1admin serveradmin -d /home/node1admin -m
Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN
It keeps saying I have wrong command. The help provides only the options, ...
- 3,115
2
votes
2
answers
12k
views
Change default username that appears in the terminal
I want to change something@something-pcname:~$ to somethingElse@somethingElse-pcname:~$. I
have already tried changing the user name from something to somethingElse but the terminal still displays ...
- 133
2
votes
2
answers
10k
views
Default User Id at Login different from User Name in Terminal Shell
During the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installation, I was prompted to enter a user name and password, so that a corresponding account could be created and set up for login. I replaced the one that was provided ...
- 1,854
2
votes
2
answers
74k
views
Virtualbox Ubuntu Image Username / password
First of all I am totally new to Linux. I decided to load Ubuntu Linux on Virtualbox and found an ova file here:
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/01/15/snappy-ubuntu-core-now-on-the-hypervisor-of-...
2
votes
1
answer
5k
views
Change default username in LiveCD
I've created a custom Ubuntu image for myself using UCK (Ubuntu Customization Kit).
My question is: when I boot the image as a LiveCD or LiveUSB, it automatically creates and logs you in to the user ...
- 517
2
votes
1
answer
917
views
2
votes
1
answer
426
views
User name on top-right most tray vanished!
User name on top-right most tray vanished!
I can't see it any more.
I see the power button and directly beside it is the clock, I'm using Ubuntu the latest version until now (v.12) 32-bit
Any ...
- 21
2
votes
1
answer
10k
views
How to hide users from the user account list of the login screen in Ubuntu 12.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I hide a particular user from the LightDM login screen?
I want to hide users from login screen. I have tried to modify a file in /etc/gdm, but that folder doesn't exist ...
- 21
2
votes
1
answer
3k
views
How do I display username on the GNOME menu bar on Ubuntu 19.10?
In Ubuntu 19.10 and the GNOME Shell version 3.34.3, I want my username to be shown on the top right corner. I tried the following GNOME Shell extensions but nothing changed.
Simple Name
Add Username ...
- 113
2
votes
2
answers
278
views
Astropy can't download files after changing username
I changed my username by following this thread: How do I change my username?
This was a few weeks ago and I have just encountered my first problem, Astropy (for python 2.7) is having trouble ...
- 23
2
votes
1
answer
8k
views
How can I change the username [duplicate]
zadsfad@ubuntu
How can I change the username (zadsfad)? If I change the host name, the 'ubuntu' section is changed.
Should I reinstall Ubuntu?
- 67
2
votes
1
answer
291
views
WiFi temporary username settings with PEAP/MSCHAPv2 on 14.04
I am setting up a computer for our grad students at my university. I have one standard-user login for all of them to use to make things a bit simpler for them. I am trying to find a way, however, to ...
- 108
2
votes
1
answer
4k
views
User disappeared from login screen
I can not log in on the graphical login since my username does not appear as a possible choice. What dictates which users appear there?
I just changed my uid from 1000 to 872 while being logged in as ...
- 2,132
2
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Changing Short name of user [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change my username?
I'm making a small ubuntu network, and in client 10.04 I "logged in" as the user "employee1", and changed my name to "Red Herring" but i cannot ...
- 21
2
votes
2
answers
8k
views
How to change the username in Ubuntu 18.04?
I need to change the username from the linux (Not admin).
I changed in settings ->Users. But how to change the "home folder" name or root user in linux.
I tried using
usermod -l <...
- 23
2
votes
2
answers
7k
views
Can't login after entering correct username and password
I wanted to change the name before hostname on my Ubuntu terminal (the x in x@y )
To do so I replaced old x in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow with newname
Now when I am trying to open Ubuntu, its not ...
- 33
2
votes
1
answer
3k
views
Why I can't change my username in Terminal? [duplicate]
I started working recently with Ubuntu and changed my username. I changed the "v" tiny by capital "V", but in Terminal remains the same.
- 21
2
votes
1
answer
4k
views
Change user's name in KDE
I want to setup my real name in 'System Settings' - 'Account Details' - 'Password & User Account' but when I click 'Apply' there is a dialog asking me for my password and I type it correctly but ...
- 51