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I cannot access my administrative account and I am using Ubuntu version 14.04. So far I am using the guest session account. Is there a way I could copy a file from my administrative account and paste it with my guest session?

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I cannot access my administrative account

It would be advisable to always include -why- you can not. You are now asking for a solution to a question you might not want or does not have you end up with a method where you can use it.

In general you can switch users on command line with 

 su - {user}

(mind the -). and when asked provide the password for the admin. Thing is: if the reason you can not use the admin account because you do not know the password this will not be of any help to you.

If that is the case you should reboot the server and at the grub prompt go to a system prompt and change the admin password. See this answer from Jorge Castro for an example on how to do this.

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  • I already did the suggestion. But when i hit enter and the system ask for my password. The answer would always be command not found. – jhomz0411 Jul 21 '15 at 07:57