Forgot login name and need to change default os at boot.
Clinton MacDonald
yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Sep 21 14:43:58 MDT 2004
Mr. Fingerson:
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 00:56, Andy Fingerson wrote:
>
>> I stopped using YDL for awhileuntil today, and I couldn't
>> remember my login name so I had to login as root. What's
>> the easiest way to find my login name?
Shawn Protsman wrote:
>> From a terminal type:
>>
>> cat /etc/passwd
>>
>> It will list all the login names. You can also use the
>> user manager GUI tool.
You could also look in the directory "/home" while logged in as root.
You will see a list of user home directories named after the short name
of each user.
Best wishes,
Clint
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