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I've successfully installed Ubuntu 12.04. On re-booting I was presented with the logon screen and on entering the password for the user, I get an invalid password error.

On searching for a solution, I stumbled upon http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword. However, after going down to the 'root' on entering "ls /home" I see no users.

I can logon using the 'Guest' session and from within that session, I can see a user account.

How do I logon with the created user account ? How do I reset the password for that account ?

Any help will greatly be appreciated.

Braiam
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Patash
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Your installation was not successful as the user that you created in the install was not created, Can you not just try the install again? Else you can:

1) Boot in single user mode

2) Add new user

sudo useradd -m -G adm,cdrom,sudo,dip,plugdev yourusername

passwd yourusername

3) Reboot and login.

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