How to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?

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Answer by mxsxs2 for How to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?

February 28, 2023, 8:24 am

None of the answers worked for me on Windows 11 with an imported Ubuntu distribution. This is more than likely because my user is a domain user rather than local.What worked is:Go into regedit and...

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Answer by SoloKyo for How to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?

June 19, 2022, 7:45 pm

Verify the uid of the user that you want to set as default in your Linux console by id:username@host:~$ iduid=1000(username) gid=1000(username)...

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Answer by beeThree for How to set default user for manually installed WSL...

May 17, 2021, 10:58 pm

If you are using Windows Terminal then you can configure a profile for your distribution.In the Profiles settings for Windows Terminal select your distro's profile, then click the General Tab and under...

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Answer by NotTheDr01ds for How to set default user for manually installed WSL...

June 7, 2023, 3:47 pm

As of the time of this writing, there are at least three (let's call it 3.5) different methods of changing/setting the default user in an imported WSL instance. While the two that have already been...

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Answer by Jaime for How to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?

February 19, 2021, 9:00 am

If you are installing some custom distributions in WSL, you will not get a "distroname.exe" command to change the configuration. You may use LxRunOffline to change the default user. This toolset can be...

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Answer by Jooio for How to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?

February 4, 2021, 11:21 pm

Normally went to the root user terminal edit the .bashrcvim .bashrcAppend this line to the last of itsu - $name

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Answer by harrymc for How to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?

July 4, 2020, 7:11 am

The normal command syntax is for example:ubuntu config --default-user new_user_nameHowever, this does not work for an imported distro, which is startedby the following command :wsl --distribution...

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