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I have fedora installed in my system. I know the password but i forgot the user name. I can access through terminal but i don't no how to login through gui. Please help me.

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With cat /etc/passwd you can see all the users on the system. With id you can see what your current user/group is.

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No, /etc/passwd may well not contain the account, and may not be used at all on some systems. – bignose Mar 24 '10 at 6:43
Unless the user is using network authentication exclusively, the /etc/passwd file will show all local users in Fedora. – TuxRug Apr 20 '11 at 5:43
@bignose: true enough. My answer is not valid for all unix/linux systems and depends on the rest of your config. But with a normal fresh install of fedora, it usually holds ;) – WoLpH Apr 20 '11 at 9:09
@TuxRug: indeed, but I wouldn't expect that from an out-of-the-box fedora install – WoLpH Apr 20 '11 at 9:09
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Use getent passwd to see all accounts that exist on the host.

Use who to see which accounts are currently logged in to a terminal on the host.

Use id to see which account owns the current shell process.

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I did not know about the getent and id commands. I'll have to try them next time I'm on my linux system. – TuxRug Apr 20 '11 at 6:02
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