cuckooflew wrote:Well not sure if ubuntu works the same as Debian, but logic, delete and remove the user you don't want,..use 'useradd' or 'adduse' commands, see 'man useradd' for details.
to delete a user see 'man userdel' to change a user name 'man usermod' , these commands do work on Debian, but they might not work on ubuntu,...you should be using a ubuntu specific support forum.
You say you tried this,that and the other , plus more, but neglect to show or tell exactly what any of the things you tried really are, so maybe you also tried what I am suggesting, ? Do a search on 'dpkg -reconfigure', that also is a option.
BEST :
Remove Ubuntu form the HD, install Debian, create the user you want, and be sure to type in the user name correctly, would work as well.
Thanks for your answer. Well, this is a Ubuntu VM, a virtual machine but my real OS is Buster, which I admit should've mentioned before and sorry about that, so basically this is the right forum for me, althought this is not a debian related question/issue and I understand if people refuse to jump in, so thanks again for doing it. There aren't any other users in the system, just one, me,
moltke, the thing's when creating the VM and installing Ubuntu on it, when reached the step of creating my user I made a typo; I wrote
moltle instead of
moltke and that's what's shown in lightdm-greeter everytime I start and log in to the VM. Sorry I can't provide more details about the the things I've done but;
1. - I was using links2 while searching for some solution and it doesn't save anything so no history on that, or if there's any, I don't know how to get acces to it on Links2.
2. - Basically, the steps I mentioned above were most of the things I tried; editing lightdm's configuration files.
3. - When I first started the VM and logged in to Ubuntu, I open a terminal and noticed the name
moltle at the prompt, this is how I know I made a typo when creating the user at the install process, I changed it so it shows
moltke, in fact, the only place I ever see that name is in lightdm-greeter box and nowhere else in the system and can't figure out how to solve/change that. It's not big deal really, system works fine, it's more something I'd like to learn whether or not it can be fixed somehow other than reinstalling which I rather not.