[solved] Change my username on cloned system

[Pepper-Mint-Patty]

Ok, re-add them. go to your /home/adler folder in the file browswer, click and drag the Documents, Desktop etc.. back over to the pane

Tried that, doesn't work.

[hayden]

how did you remove them? right-click and remove?

[Pepper-Mint-Patty]

how did you remove them? right-click and remove?

Most likely.
And there is a folder called desktop in documents too...

When logged in as fourth all the folders are there.

[hayden]

lol. i have no idea what you did. sorry

[Pepper-Mint-Patty]

lol. i have no idea what you did. sorry

Likewise.
Will do one snapshot restore again, and restart the method. See how that will end.
I am getting quite a routine now.

[Pepper-Mint-Patty]

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https://i.ibb.co/RzpzYC7/junk-2.png

The orange triangles are linked to the old user! This has not been changed when changing the username. Dead links!
Downloads Music Videos Documents Pictures

These folders do exist for the new made user. Here is explained how to relink them
viewtopic.php?p=1630645&sid=6d57a09d4ef ... 9#p1630645

But why didn't this happen in the first place. And more importantly: will there be more (important) things not working ?

[hayden]

I dont know. I tested it on my system and that did not happen. It went smooth with the renamed user. It must be something different you are doing.

[Pepper-Mint-Patty]

It must be something different you are doing.

The difference i notice from your example
viewtopic.php?p=1902151#p1902151

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test2:x:1004:1004:test2,,,:/home/test2:/bin/bash

I am having now temp@old and old@old

1-

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temp@old:/home$ sudo vim /etc/passwd
geoclue:x:121:127::/var/lib/geoclue:/usr/sbin/nologin
old:x:1000:1000:,,,:/home/old:/bin/bash
temp:x:1001:1001:Temp-DEL,,,:/home/temp:/bin/bash

when checking I have only 2x old. The one you called test2
The temp user does appear 3 times.

2- This sambashare should that be there?

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temp@old:/home$ sudo vim /etc/group 

geoclue:x:127:
old:x:1000:
sambashare:x:128:old
temp:x:1001:temp

3- Whenever I change the hostname it changes for both users. Isn’t that odd?

[hayden]

when checking I have only 2x old. The one you called test2. The temp user does appear 3 times

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are saying here.

This sambashare should that be there?

yeah that's unrelated

- Whenever I change the hostname it changes for both users. Isn’t that odd?

The hostname is never going to change for different users. The hostname is the name of the computer. It has nothing to do with usernames.

[Pepper-Mint-Patty]

when checking I have only 2x old. The one you called test2. The temp user does appear 3 times

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are saying here.

I think this is the problem i meet all the time. Try to explain.

When i do

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sudo vim /etc/passwd

and go down, it shows

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geoclue:x:121:127::/var/lib/geoclue:/usr/sbin/nologin
old:x:1000:1000:,,,:/home/old:/bin/bash
temp:x:1001:1001:Temp-DEL,,,:/home/temp:/bin/bash

oldx1000:,,,:/home/old:/bin/bash

So 2 times old
shouldn't this be?

oldx1000:old,,,:/home/old:/bin/bash

[hayden]

If you gave a full name to a user it will display it there, if you did not then it will not. Let me show you examples:

- 1st Example:
I did not type a name in the "Full Name" field when it prompted, I just pressed enter. See where i cat the file and it does not show apple three times, only twice. If I would have type "apple" as the user's "Full Name" then the word apple would show you 3 times in that passwd line. It would show whatever Full Name you give it, not necessarily "apple", which I'll show that in 2nd Example.

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root@topaz:/home# adduser apple
Adding user `apple' ...
Adding new group `apple' (1004) ...
Adding new user `apple' (1004) with group `apple' ...
Creating home directory `/home/apple' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
New password: 
Retype new password: 
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for apple
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
	Full Name []: 
	Room Number []: 
	Work Phone []: 
	Home Phone []: 
	Other []: 
Is the information correct? [Y/n] y
root@topaz:/home#
root@topaz:/home# cat /etc/passwd
apple:x:1004:1004:,,,:/home/apple:/bin/bash

- 2nd Example

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root@topaz:/home# adduser orange
Adding user `orange' ...
Adding new group `orange' (1005) ...
Adding new user `orange' (1005) with group `orange' ...
Creating home directory `/home/orange' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
New password: 
Retype new password: 
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for orange
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
	Full Name []: Orange Man
	Room Number []: 
	Work Phone []: 
	Home Phone []: 
	Other []: 
Is the information correct? [Y/n] y
root@topaz:/home# cat /etc/passwd
orange:x:1005:1005:Orange Man,,,:/home/orange:/bin/bash

Does that make sense?

[Pepper-Mint-Patty]

Does that make sense?

Yeah i remember giving full name: Temp-DEL. Thanks for the explanation.
Still don't get it why it doesn't work. It looks so bloody simple yet everytime i end up with a mess...
Anyhow i have been fiddling around and made many corrections. I managed to get user and hostname how i like it and changed the menu links.

Could you please tell me the command for:
-to get root to make the new user?
-to get rid of my 2nd user that has admin rights?

And hayden thank you for keep trying to help me!

[hayden]

Could you please tell me the command for:
-to get root to make the new user?

I already posted how to do this. Look up two posts above this one. See the adduser?

-to get rid of my 2nd user that has admin rights?

every time i hear someone say admin rights when referring to linux it makes me cringe. That's Windows terminology. lol.
anyway to delete a user:

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$ sudo killall -u username
$ sudo userdel -r username

[Pepper-Mint-Patty]

Could you please tell me the command for:
-to get root to make the new user?

I already posted how to do this. Look up two posts above this one. See the adduser?

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old@old:~$ adduser orange
adduser: Only root may add a user or group to the system.

i tried to get root by su an su -

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old@old:~$ su -
Password: 
su: Authentication failure
old@old:~$ su
Password: 
su: Authentication failure

for sudo the password does work, so i use the correct password.

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old@old:~$ cd /home && ls
old  lost+found  temp  timeshift
old@old:/home$ sudo vim /etc/passwd
old@old:/home$ 

[hayden]

Yes that makes sense. When you are typing " su - " you are switching to the root user so you will have to type root's password to get to a root prompt. Using sudo is different. As I've already explained somewhere in this novel we're making that sudo is simply temporarily elevating your access by allowing you to run commands as the root user. This is what some Linux distributions, like Mint, are calling "admin" accounts.

If you want to use root account in Mint, you need to first change the root password.

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$ sudo passwd

type in the root password you want to use
then you can

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erik@topaz:~$ su -
Password: 
root@topaz:~#