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 (@).
Questions tagged [username]
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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 and my password:
sudo su nobody
It doesn't mind…
Radu Rădeanu
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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.
Jayharte
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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 account in Thunderbird so that I can start again?
behrouz asady
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Is there a single line command to do `su`?
I can do an su with su and it asks for my password. Is there a password parameter for su such that i wont be prompted for a password?
e.g. su -p
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How do I change the name that is displayed when I login?
When installing Ubuntu it asked me for a name. I entered it as name (space) lastname. Now when I get to login screen, it greets me by that name. I want to change it, in fact to remove last name.
dakky
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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.
N.N.
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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 :
myhost@myname:~$
instead of
myname@myhost:~$
It…
Rémi B.
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How to change the display name on the Terminal?
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?
Benjamin
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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.
Nordlöw
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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 know who runs X (as the current console can be…
January
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Make a .sh that sets new username, hostname and password
I am distributing a VM to my students for a beginners programming course. For speed, instead of getting them to install Ubuntu from scratch, I'm planning to give them a fully set up image that they can just run.
In order to get it set up I've given…
Ben
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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?
Ivan
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How to change 'Your Name'?
I'm new to Ubuntu 14.10, and I want to change the 'your name' (appear at the time of Installation) from hanu to Hanu in Terminal, i.e., hanu@4268 to Hanu@4268.
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why is there no name showing at the command line?
a hopefully simple one here, I don't know why there's no username at the $ when a new account is added and you login?
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
The programs…
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What is the logic behind the user name restrictions in *buntu?
In Fedora, I use my preferred account name, which happens to be a fully qualified domain name. By using a fully qualified domain name as my user name across most of my accounts (both on my own computer and across the web), I minimize the chance that…
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