On Monday 09 September 2019 13:10:06 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 12:21:45PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'm building a RealtimePi buster-lite on the pi3 right now. Just one > > $PITA problem, raspian insists the first, usr 1000 is > > "pi". Is there a foolproof way to convert that to "gene", or am I > > stuck logging into it as "pi"? > > You keep asking Raspbian questions on debian-user. Maybe you should > be talking to a Raspbian mailing list about your Raspbian questions.
In case you haven't noted, raspian has no mailing lists, only forums, with a poorer search engine than google. And no automatic login memory. That would be tolerable IF you didn't lose your search results while logging in > From the Debian point of view, you can simply login to the computer as > root, then edit the /etc/passwd file and the /etc/shadow file (and > probably the /etc/group file also, because I'm guessing you also want > to change a group name). Change "pi" to "gene", save and exit. > Voila. Tell that to pam. Even after editing sudoers, pam won't allow yoou to do squawt as sudo root. BTDT. > For safety, you should use "vipw", "vipw -s" and "vigr" to perform > those edits, but it's not actually required on Debian. Screwed up already, I used vipw to put me in front of pi, but now it wants genes passwd, which has not been set. So I'll have to bring that chip to a reader and edit it. Is there an order to make all this just work? But I'll have to wait till realtimepi is done. Estimated another couple hours. > If you want to retain the "pi" username, you can copy its lines and > change "pi" to "gene" only in the copy. Then you would have two user > account names (pi and gene) which both map to UID 1000. I hadn't considered that, will that get me past pam? It would be nice if it had a man page but I've yet to find one. Security by paranoid obscurity I guess. > Files/processes owned by UID 1000 will display with whichever name > appears first in the passwd file. This may be a useful alternative if > Raspbian has some scripts or programs which hard-code the "pi" user > name. I'll give it a shot, thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
