[Solved]User issues after copy vm installation to hard disk

[dancer_69]

Hello,
I had linux mint 19 installed and updated in a vmware vm. I transered the installation to a hard disk partition and I've managed to boot. After I tried change the username and transfer the home directory to another partition which I use for home. After that and when I rebooted I could login with the changed username without problems from tty console, but lightdm failed to login to the graphical enviroment, which was expected because was trying to login to the previous username. At first I edited lightdm' s config file and added the option to login with different usernames. Then I was able to input the correct user name but lightdm again failed to login to desktop.
So, because I haven't any configurations I want to keep, I created a new user and I managed to login from lightdm to this new user without problems.
The problem now is that I want to configure lightdm to login(and maybe autologin) to this new user, and remove the old user entry from lightdm and also the old user's old username entry which is still the default in lightdm.
To sum up and avoid to confuse you:
old username -> user
changed old username -> minduser
new username -> mindus
Lightdm has "user" as default
I want to keep and use as default the "mindus" user and remove the other two entries.

[dancer_69]

I edited lightdm' s config file to set the new user name as autologin user, and I deleted the old user, its directory and group. After that the system booted and login to the new user automatic without problems. Also the previous user(old and new name) removed from lightdm' s login screen.
So seems that my problem solved.

[deepakdeshp]

https://vitux.com/add-and-manage-user-a ... 18-04-lts/