XY: I installed bazzite and goofed up. The username is wrong and my home is /home/bazzite instead of /home/ludrol

I am trying to run usermod -l ludrol bazzite in tty3 with sudo su - but the bazzite user is logged.

Solution:
Added password to root with passwd
Logged in as root
Ran required usermod commands
Disabled root with passwd -l

  • Sakura VanGogh@lemmy.ml
    9·
    1 day ago

    Create a new user with sudo access then log in as that user and make the change. When done delete the temp user.

  • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 day ago

    IDK if this will work but maybe doing exec sudo -i does the trick.

    Otherwise just enable the root account and log in as root. Should be passwd -u root to unlock (passwd -l root to relock), also need to set the root password using passwd root.

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      11·
      4 hours ago

      Another way to do this is sudo su -c 'this is my command’

      E.g. change a fan setting on a ThinkPad with:

      sudo su -c 'echo "level full-speed" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan'

      So to run a shell you could do all sorts of tricks like:

      sudo su -c '/bin/bash -i' and such.

      Never know when it comes in handy.

      EDIT: Damn, downvoted, any reason why? It works on my machine with a locked root user or one without a PW and I made sure to test it before posting, but I’d love an explanation of why it wouldn’t work if that’s the reason for the downvote. Was just hoping it would be useful to somebody :/

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
    1·
    1 day ago

    An alternative, if you have console access, to doing that root password dance, is:

    1. Drop to rescue/emergency/single-user mode.
    2. Do your changes to the user account
    3. Drop back to multiuser mode.
  • LupusBlackfur@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 day ago

    Try: sudo pkill -KILL -u <username>

    In your case sudo pkill -KILL -u bazzite

    Then: sudo usermod -l ludrol bazzite