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

[Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>]

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

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Roberto C. Sánchez