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 (@).
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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 ...
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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.
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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/...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 :
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How do I find out my username while locked out of my account
My initial problem was that my computer wouldn't let me login to my account. It seems to shut down after I enter my password. I can login as a guest.
I found fixes but I can't remember / figure out ...
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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?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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I deleted my original user account. The new account has no password. How can I enable it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add myself back as a sudo user?
How can enable my admin account? i deleted the other one and now the new one is without password and i cant access it and cant do ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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?
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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 ...
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Invalid UTF-8 as username?
In my top panel, my username shows up as "[Invalid UTF-8]". Yet, on the login screen, it is correct. I had this problem once before and I was able to fix it, but I can't remember where I found how to ...
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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-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Is there any GNOME extension to display account name in the top bar instead of a group of function button?
OS: Ubuntu 18.04
I am new to GNOME Desktop and I want to customize it a little bit. As seen on 16.04 (Unity Desktop), those function button (as picture below) display as my account name. I want to ...
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Edit user Real name and change avatar
I reinstalled Ubuntu and I am now unable to change/input my Real Name. Memenu does not display usernam either. Is there a way to input this data manually by changing some hidden file or smth?!
BTW, ...
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Change root name in ubuntu [duplicate]
how're you doing? I am somewhat new to ubuntu and finding problem changing the root user name. My terminal displays priyank@Alex right now. I changed the second name to Alex using hostname and hosts. ...
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How to disable normal user password at lockscreen WITH Black screen at login issue
I'm still quite a noob. Sorry for my english, not a native speaker.
It's just to avoid putting password each time my dad laptop goes to sleep (basically used as a home pc and security wouldn't be a ...