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So recently I had to change my WSL ubuntu terminal password. I changed the password via root access. But now I cannot seem to revert back to my user-account. This is because I have forgotten the user_account name.

Can someone help me with this?

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From the root account, you can check the password database. Your non-system users will normally have UIDs in the range 1000 - 65533. So for example:

getent passwd | awk -F: '$3>999 && $3<65534'

Alternatively just look at the contents of the /home directory, since by default users' home directories are created with the same name as the username:

ls /home

Using this information, you should then be able to set the default user using the method described here:

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