**RESOLVED**How to change incorrectly spelled username for new instalation

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I got it :slight_smile:

  • give your root user a password
  • reboot
  • when choosing Qubes OS boot in grub, type e to edit
  • in the “module2” line, add single and press ctrl+x to boot
  • enter LUKS password as requested
  • enter root password as requested
  • type usermod -l newlogin oldlogin
  • type exit
  • done

Basically, you can also do it live but it’s dirty

  • sudo -i
  • vipw and replace your username with the new one
  • vipw -s and replace username
  • modify /etc/group, /etc/subgid and /etc/gshadow to replace the old username with the new one
  • reboot

I used the dirty method to change my username, and the right one to fix it again, so both are confirmed to work on 4.2 :ok_hand:

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