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Auto Updated from 8.1 to current and Ubuntu doesn't know me!

Asked by Dean

Brand new to Ubuntu and Linux altogether. NO experience with it. New laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 installed, so among the first things that the machine did was to say that there were updates. Of course, so I blithely cooperated with the updates. Updates finish, the machine is rebooted, and now, ungrateful thing that it is, it doesn't even know my name! Or my password for that matter. I'm pretty sure that the upgrade was to 9.04, but I can't even prove that. I'm needing some help. Sigh.

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Soul-Sing (soulzing) said : 		#1

maybe this linkage will be helpful for name and pass recovery: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

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Dean (deanzf) said : 		#2

I continued to look in the archives here and found an answer to question #72147, someone obviously having similar problems. The info was not exact to 9.0.4, but with some interpolation, interpretation, lots of guessing and fooling around, I figured it out.

Don't quote this as gospel, but I'm sure that when I set up 8.10, I set my user name as Dean (case sensitive, of course) and once 9.0.4 was done, my name is now dean.

As already stated, I'm a total novice in the wonderful world of Ubuntu, but willing to learn and pay those prices. Thanks, leoquant.

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Dean (deanzf) said : 		#3

I continued to look in the archives here and found an answer to question #72147, someone obviously having similar problems. The info was not exact to 9.0.4, but with some interpolation, interpretation, lots of guessing and fooling around, I figured it out.

Don't quote this as gospel, but I'm sure that when I set up 8.10, I set my user name as Dean (case sensitive, of course) and once 9.0.4 was done, my name is now dean.

As already stated, I'm a total novice in the wonderful world of Ubuntu, but willing to learn and pay those prices. Thanks, leoquant.