Autologin to new user instead of pi

[karrika]

I just created a new user and ditched the user pi.

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sudo adduser karri
sudo visudo (to allow karri to be the new admin)

then logout and login as karri to check that sudo still works.

As I am lazy I wanted to change the automatic login to log in as karri and not as pi.

For that you need to change the line in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

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autologin-user=pi

to

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autologin-user=karri

Once this is done I wanted to ditch the user pi completely.

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sudo userdel -r pi

Ok. Now the user pi is gone. I also changed my password to something completely gibberish.

Phase 1 completed on customizing my precious PIXEL desktop.

Or perhaps not quite.

The old pi user belonged to lots of groups.

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ groups
pi adm dialout cdrom sudo audio video plugdev games users input netdev gpio i2c spi

I probably need to belong there too.

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sudo usermod -a -G adm karri
sudo usermod -a -G dialout karri
sudo usermod -a -G cdrom karri
sudo usermod -a -G sudo karri
sudo usermod -a -G audio karri
sudo usermod -a -G video karri
sudo usermod -a -G plugdev karri
sudo usermod -a -G games karri
sudo usermod -a -G users karri
sudo usermod -a -G input karri
sudo usermod -a -G netdev karri
sudo usermod -a -G gpio karri
sudo usermod -a -G i2c karri
sudo usermod -a -G spi karri