Raspberry Pi removes default user id, 'Pi'

Create the file with the above contents and save it in your home directory as change-username.service

Then from within the terminal in your home directory, change ownership of the file to root…

sudo chown root:root change-username.service

Move the file to the systemd service directory (note: the trailing slash is important)…

sudo mv change-username.service /etc/systemd/system/

Then enable the service…

sudo systemctl enable change-username.service

Then reboot. After rebooting, your username, home directory and user group should all be changed. You should then disable the service…

sudo systemctl disable change-username.service
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