Default user lost after moving

[Thiago Lopes]

what can it be, when moving wsl it goes only in root

print> https://prnt.sc/s0qzvc

[Dennis Koch]

@th14go Not sure if I understood correctly. After moving the distro your default user was lost and root used instead? You can set your default user with debian config --default-user USERNAME. Does that fix it for you?

Apparently this is the normal behaviour of the wsl command. You can try setting your default user in wsl.conf like suggested here: microsoft/WSL#3974 (comment)

[Dennis Koch]

So I just tried this myself.

Add this to your /etc/wsl.conf inside your distro:

[user]
default=YOUR_USERNAME

Then exit WSL, terminate your distro (wsl -t YOUR_DISTRO) and start it again.

[Thiago Lopes]

that's it buddy, it worked, with the command you gave (debian config --default-user USERNAME) . Perfect thank you @pxlrbt

screenshot > https://prnt.sc/s18dhk

[Dennis Koch]

@th14go You probably should set up wsl.conf. Does the same, but is more bulletproof.

[Thiago Lopes]

@pxlrbt I understand, I already made this configuration as you said.