UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)
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
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Jason
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