Username and password

[sean8601]

hey, im new to all this, but im hoping someone will help. i installed ubuntu 8.1 and when i get to the login screen i cant be logged in cause of invalid name or password.. any help would be appreciated

[b2bwild]

This is because of you dont know the username or password.

1. You cant login as root on GUI.
2. May be you have mistyped username while installation.
3. or you have forgot the password, mistyping it or CAPS is on?

press

Ctrl+Alt+F1

It will lead you to CLI tty1

then Login as root.

# tail /etc/passwd

see the last entry. most probably your username.

# passwd username

to change the password.

if you want to add new user, type

# useradd username

to new user

[sahabcse]

Hi

Reboot the system, In the boot menu select the ubuntu recovery mode. It will boot and stop in three options

1)fix the x sever
2)log into the root termina
3)resume to boot

There you select 2nd option. If you dont know the user name type
#cd /home
#ls

There you can see the username. Then change the password using the command
#passwd username

Regards
Sahab