lost / forgot user name

Avedepreda · 10-04-2013, 01:42 PM

Hi All, I'm a virtual

with regards to Linux in it's various flavors. I loaded SuSe on a hdd that i archived some time ago, and have forgotten my user name

; is there a quick recovery for that (SuSe 10 on a P4 box). I successfully reset the password

, with forum assistance ~ great work - THANKS!! I was told something about getting to the library to see the users list.....

redfox2807 · 10-04-2013, 02:53 PM

Well, in OpenSUSE you always have a privilleged user called root. This user can add users, remove users, change a password for any user. So you can just log in sa root and create another user. To see the users list in you system type in a terminal:

Quote:

cat /etc/passwd

The user names will be in the first coulmn seperated from other information by colon.

paladin.michael · 10-28-2013, 01:18 PM

Incidentally, if you don't remember the root password, but remember your own, you could boot from a livecd or bootable usb thumbdrive, mount the drive and access the /etc/passwd file in it from there. In fact, if you used a bootable liveCD to install OpenSUSE, you could use that disk to do this.