How to Change the username or userID in Kali Linux?

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Situatie

Kali Linux allows us to enter the username while installing it and it assigns the username a unique user id to identify the user and it assigns the id itself. Now there come situations when we have to change the username or user id.

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 To get the user id of a user

cat /etc/passwd | grep oldusername

Replace the oldusername with the name of the user you want to use

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 To change the Username. We use usermod command along with -l parameter in order to change the username of a particular user.

usermod -l newusername oldusername

Replace the oldusername with the name of the user you want to change and the newusername with the new name of the user

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This command will change the username of the oldusername to the newusername but will not change the files and userID of the user.

To change the UserID we use usermod command along with -u parameter in order to change the userid of a particular user.

usermod -u 1234 newusername

Replace the newusername with the username you want to change the id of. And Replace 1234 with the id you want to set for the user.

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