default os: loop while login as rock
01-02-2020, 10:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-02-2020, 10:23 AM by gritibaenz.)
@hmuller
Thanks again - this way I could manage to login as rock again.
The Problem raises when following https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebook_Pro :
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You can change the default rock username and rock home directory by logging into root (credentials root/root) instead of the default 'rock' user and running the following in root terminal and substituting desired username for NewUser:
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which I did for my newuser. But doing it that way, it seems that user rock and user NewUser are not independent.
because now I cannot login as NewUser anymore and the user:group for /home/NewUser/* is rock.rock .
What I wanted was, clone user rock and have an independent NewUser (based on user rock). - So I'll try to remove NewUser completely and create a NewUser with the command useradd ...
Do you have suggestions how to do that?
Thanks again - this way I could manage to login as rock again.
The Problem raises when following https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebook_Pro :
...
You can change the default rock username and rock home directory by logging into root (credentials root/root) instead of the default 'rock' user and running the following in root terminal and substituting desired username for NewUser:
Code:
usermod -l NewUser rock
usermod -d /home/rock -m NewUser...
which I did for my newuser. But doing it that way, it seems that user rock and user NewUser are not independent.
because now I cannot login as NewUser anymore and the user:group for /home/NewUser/* is rock.rock .
What I wanted was, clone user rock and have an independent NewUser (based on user rock). - So I'll try to remove NewUser completely and create a NewUser with the command useradd ...
Do you have suggestions how to do that?