How to find out the login of a single user in a virtual image of Ubuntu Server?

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energizer8882019-02-12 21:19:21

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energizer888, 2019-02-12 21:19:21

Half a day I installed Ubuntu Server on a virtual image (Home OS - Kubuntu 18.04). The Internet is weak, it took a long time to download something. As a result, the installation has just completed, I am happy to reload the image and stumble upon something that I did not expect at all - login. I remembered the password, but I didn’t guess that the login would also be needed. What will we do? How can I penetrate the FS and find out the login?

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CityCat4, 2019-02-13
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Suddenly - root? :)

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Alexey, 2019-02-19
@AlexeyVi

CityCat4 won't work) it's ubuntu) root has no password and login under it is not possible
Therefore, boot from any live-cd, mount the root fs, then view /etc/passwd on this root system, non-system users have uid by default and gid starting from 1000