How to know what users my droplet has?

April 5, 2018 2.1k

Getting Started Initial Server Setup Ubuntu

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leiguoyang

I’ve added two users to my droplet and now I want to get the information about them. but I don’t know how.

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eddiezane MOD April 5, 2018

Accepted Answer

You can run cat /etc/passwd to see a list of all users on the system. Your users will generally have a user ID higher than 1000.

leiguoyang April 5, 2018

Thank you. With your command I see the two users.

Actually, I forget one user’s password and I will find ways to get it back after reading more docs.

Have a good day.
- jasonjpeters April 5, 2018
  
  From your root user or a user that has sudo privileges you can up date the password with this command…
  
  as root - passwd username
  sudo user - sudo passwd username
  
  … and following the the prompts.
  
  leiguoyang April 6, 2018
  
  @jasonjpeters Thank you. I change the password and can log in the server successfully.
  
  jasonjpeters April 6, 2018
  
  You’re welcome, I am happy it worked out.

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