On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 03:04:03PM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote: > On 01/09/18 04:49, Jason wrote: > > > This I'd guess is important, if you have several users. I don't, except > > > for amanda and nut, and thats only on this machine. All the rest have > > > one user, me, known under various aliases because the idiot installer is > > > now set to give the first user the machines name like pi or rock64. I > > > spent a month trying to fix user 1000 to be me instead of pi on the pi. > > On the Pi, this is what worked for me: > > > > 1. Add a new user (and add him to group sudo). This user gets ID 1001. > > $ sudo adduser tempuser > > $ sudo adduser tempuser sudo > > > > 2. Log out of user pi and log in as the newly created user. > > 3. Delete user pi (pi must not have any processes running) > > $ sudo deluser pi > > > > 4. Add the desired username: > > $ sudo adduser gene > > > I just edited the password file directly, "vipw" and "vipw -s", and renamed > the pi user. > Don't forget about occurrences of 'pi' in the group files (use 'vigr' and 'vigr -s' to catch those).
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
