/crostini_userchange

A bash script that makes changing the username of the user on Crostini easy.

Primary LanguageShell

user_change.sh

A bash script that easily changes the username of your user on Crostini.

WARNING!

This script has only been tested on Crostini containers running Debian and Arch. So if you are running on a different distro, and this does not work, please make an issue and we can try to make this compatible with your distro :) --crue-ton

How do I run this?

  • You need to enter Crosh doing Ctrl + Alt + T while one google chrome.
  • Enter a terminal session by running:
vmc start termina
  • Then login to the pengiun containter as root:
lxc exec penguin -- bash
  • Clone this repo, then go into it.
git clone https://github.com/crue-ton/crostini_userchange
cd crostini_userchange
  • Then Run:
bash user_change.sh
# MAKE SURE YOU RUN 'bash' and NOT 'sh', as it WILL NOT WORK!
  • Follow the steps, and then shutdown ASAP, you should get a question asking if you want to shutdown.
  • If you don't want to shutdown as soon as it is down (for some reason) run this when you want to shutdown:
shutdown -h now