How to change default user in WSL2 after --import?

Question

Windows

Good afternoon.

A few days ago I made a backup of the Ubuntu20.04 WSL distribution (wsl.exe --export ...). Then I restored this image ( wsl.exe --import ...).

There was one problem - by default, the distribution starts from the root user, there is another user user in the system. Now, in order to switch between users, I use su - user, but I can not force the distribution kit to start from this user.

I found solutions on the net using lxrun (lxrun / setdefaultuser user), but as I understand it, lxrun was available in the first version of WSL, and at the moment it is dredged from Windows (at least in c: \ windows \ system32 - I did not find it and in powershell when calling lxrun/lxrun .exe I get an error).

Tell me how to change the user on whose behalf the distribution kit will start now?

Answer 1

wsl [-d distroname] -u username
about the config, it seems like it is googled and executed without error messages like this

wsl --setdefault distroname config --default-user username

but it didn’t affect anything for me, if you don’t specify the user explicitly, root starts