You must be logged into a different account to change the username for the desired account.<\/p>\n
If you don’t already have a separate account to use, create one by running the following at the command prompt: Refer to step 2 below to enable\/disable Automatic Login.<\/p>\n Execute the following from the command prompt: Execute the following from the command prompt: Reboot the computer. When the reboot completes, the pre-existing \/home\/<OLD_USERNAME><\/span> should be:\u00a0 Note:<\/strong> For step 6, ensure you are logged in on the account matching the username to that which you changed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Pre-requisites: You must be logged into a different account to change the username for the desired account. If you don’t already have a separate account to use, create one by running the following at the command prompt: sudo useradd -l <new_username> -d \/home\/<new_username> You must also disable Automatic Login of the account for which you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nsudo useradd -l <new_username<\/em>> -d \/home\/<new_username<\/em>>
\n<\/span>You must also disable Automatic Login of the account for which you are changing the username and then reboot into a different account from the one for which you are changing the username.<\/p>\nSteps:<\/h4>\n
\n
\nSelect the account to modify.
\nClick Unlock<\/strong> and enter the current password to enable for editing user information. The top box is the login name – change it to match the new username you used or will use in the usermod command.<\/li>\n
\nSelect the account to modify.
\nClick Unlock<\/strong> and toggle Automatic Login<\/strong> to ON<\/strong> from OFF<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
\nsudo usermod -l <NEW_USERNAME<\/em>> -d \/home\/<NEW_USERNAME<\/em>> -m <OLD_USERNAME<\/em>>
\n<\/span>Note:<\/strong> For the next step, the NEW_GROUP_NAME should match the NEW_USERNAME and the OLD_GROUP_NAME should match the OLD_USERNAME.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nsudo groupmod -n <NEW_GROUP_NAME<\/em>> <OLD_GROUP_NAME<\/em>>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n\/home\/<NEW_USERNAME><\/span>.<\/p>\n
\n$HOME\/.config\/systemd\/user\/x0vncserver.service<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"