On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 10:17:12PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 10 December 2017 19:02:49 David Wright wrote: > > > On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 16:43:02 (-0500), Gene Heskett 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 Since no 1000 exists anymore you get UID 1000. If desired, delete the temporary user and the deleted users' home directories. It's possible the raspi-config utility might have a problem performing certain actions with no pi user existing so you might want to be a bit careful and make sure initial configuration is done before trying this. > It was like trying to excavate the pine island pirate treasure, so I > eventually gave it up and reinstalled the jessie image. Ditto on the > rock64, so the only thing common is the password. Fortunately an ssh -Y > usr@machine works just fine. > > I would not call my wife computer illiterate, but the last machine she > had to use for report card preps, (she's a long retired music teacher) > was a Packard-Bell with an 80286 cpu and dos-3.1 on floppies. She could > do it by hand in 1/3rd of the time. I have set her down at prior > versions of this keyboard, but running a mouse is beyond her. She spent > 34 years teaching grade school music in the county school system. > > > Hopefully tomás won't need to paraphrase this :) > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett -- Jason
