wrong login

[oxtail75]

after the hacking problem i reinstalled then when hardy was released i reinstalled a fresh copy of 7.4 with a new user name / password then updated

today i when to log in and inputed my old user name and password and it logged me in any iders

[hermes0710]

Obviously the old user was not deleted. Do you want to delete him/her?

[oxtail75]

the only user of the pc is me i looked in user accounts and there is only mine there and when i did the fresh install i choice a new password and user name that was very different to the old one so how was i able to log in with the old username

[hermes0710]

This is not possible. You either didn't do a clean install (=>did not format the drive) or else you chose a new drive for you ubuntu system and you still login to your old... Once the disk is formatted how is ubuntu supposed to recover a user from it?

You may be right though but if so...terrible bug...