How to change default user in WSL Ubuntu bash on Windows 10

Tiago F2 answered on June 24, 2021 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 5/10

related linux set default user wsl

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ubuntu2 config --default-user root

#ubuntu 20.04
ubuntu2004 config --default-user root

#ubuntu 18.04
ubuntu1804 config --default-user root

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Contributed on Jun 24 2021

Tiago F2

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For windows terminal preview I had to change the command line to add the user in the default profile

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wsl.exe -d Arch -u myusername

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