Rename Default User in Qubes Virtual Machine

[Ray Woodcock]

I downloaded a canned Qubes 4.0 VM from OSBoxes. It comes with a default account named osboxes (password osboxes.org). How can I rename that account?

[unman]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 04:38:54PM -0800, Ray Woodcock wrote:
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> I downloaded a canned Qubes 4.0 VM from OSBoxes

> <https://www.osboxes.org/qubes-os/>. It comes with a default account named

> osboxes (password osboxes.org). How can I rename that account?
>

I'm assuming that that lacks a good deal of functionality?

One of the things that many users dont get is that Qubes is
just Linux/Xen under the hood.
So the answer to your question is (probably) "How do I rename a user
account in Linux", and the answer to *that* question is :
usermod -l new_name old_name

As `man usermod` will tell you, that ONLY changes the name - you probably
want to change the name of the home directory as well, but it isn't
strictly necessary.

unman

[Ray Woodcock]

For posterity: I have figured out how to rename an osboxes account as well as why that is not advisable. See https://raywoodcockslatest.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/renaming-the-osboxes-user-creating-a-user-in-an-osboxes-linux-vm/