I cannot login to my ubuntu admin!!!! HELP!

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Published on 2012-11-07T07:07:04Z Indexed on 2012/11/10 5:16 UTC
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I used lightdm to hide the users at the login prompt of ubuntu and it hid my account. The only one visible is "other" and it doesn't even have a known password. So, I have accessed the terminal and created a guest account and another account without passwords and they are not visible. I am new to using the terminal so I don't know how to write the commands for either:

  1. making all users/accounts visible to the login and/or
  2. making the guest accounts visible, and then once in the GUI change the login settings to see my admin account.

I have no idea of what else I could do, or even how to do it. I would appreciate any help, I'm in a desperate situation because I really need to access my desktop! THANK YOU!!! Any ideas are appreciated!!!

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