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

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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

-- 
Jason

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UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in  systemd) Jason <electron@emypeople.net> - 2018-01-09 05:10 +0100
  Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in  systemd) Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org> - 2018-01-09 16:00 +0100
    Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in  systemd) Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-09 16:30 +0100
      Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in  systemd) Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org> - 2018-01-09 18:10 +0100
    Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in  systemd) Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-01-10 04:50 +0100

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