I just reinstalled Kali Linux 2020.2 because I had too many problems earlier. I created a new username and password in the Kali Linux installation. I wrote the password to a file, but already forgot the username. I'm wondering if there's a way to dump system users. I'm currently stuck on login. If anyone can help me I would appreciate it.

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You can reset your password through init=/bin/bash trick.

• First boot Kali Linux GRUB menu.
• Now in GRUB menu, select "Kali GNU/Linux" and press "e".
• Then in the next screen find a line starting with "linux".
• There replace "ro" with "rw" and replace "quiet" with "init=/bin/bash".
• Now type command mount in the shell.
• And then type command passwd user_name to reset password.
• Now reboot with exec /sbin/init.

Hope that helps

Note: If you have forgot your username to then you can run cat /etc/passwd to search for your username, or to filter only usernames run awk -F: '{ print $1}' /etc/passwd

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Run cat /etc/passwd and see which one is your username. It's likely you'll see a lot of entries, but this is normal, because a lot of daemons run as their own user.

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