How can I change username "admin"?

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Hello Guys,

I would like to change username "admin " to “yoyofamily”. How can I do?

I googled how to reset the admin password and the results showed using this:
gvmd --user=admin --new-password=new_password
But did not find any information for change username, could someone help me?

Many Thanks.

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You need to first create a new user with admin privileges:

gvmd --create-user=yoyofamily --password=pwd --role=Admin

Then inherit tasks from user admin:
gvmd --inheritor=yoyofamily

Then you can delete admin user:
gvmd --delete-user=admin

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HI Tatooin,

Many thanks. I can create a new user by your command as 2 below, but it is missing the original tasks and Hosts. Would you have any idea about that?

You need to first create a new user with admin privileges:
gvmd --create-user=yoyofamily --password=pwd --role=Admin
Then inherit tasks from user admin:
gvmd --inheritor=yoyofamily

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–inheritor= USERNAME

Have USERNAME inherit from deleted user.

If you delete user admin, tasks belonging to admin will automatically be assigned to the username assigned with --inheritor.

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Hi tatooin,

I try to type gvmd --delete-user=admin and will show “Resources owned by the user are still in use by others”.Would you have any advice about that?

P.S: I have stopped service: openvas-scanner, openvas-manager, gvmd.service, gsad…etc.

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Hi Owem

My bad, you must use inheritor with --delete-user. I just tried and it worked. Eg;

gvmd –delete-user=admin --inheritor=yoyofamily

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Hi tatooin,

Thank you so much. It worked and this problem is solved.