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Renaming user in ubuntu when using WSL2
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Recently (well a couple of hours ago 😆) I installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my WSL2 but I misspelled my username and I had to ( wanted to is more accurate 😆) change to my preferred username. I got all my insights from here and here.

 wsl -d ubuntu-22.04 -u root usermod -l <new-username> <old-username>
 wsl -d ubuntu-22.04 -u root groupmod -n <new-groupname> <old-groupname>
 wsl -d ubuntu-22.04 -u root usermod -d /home/<new-home-directory> -m <new-username>

I got excited this worked the first time and I wanted to write about it 😄

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mmzvia commented Oct 13, 2024

thanks!

@Muhammad-Jafar
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cool, thank you :)

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