Raspberry Pi OS • Re: unable to delete old user

Thanks for this detailed explanation.
I was already doing most of it.
logged in as david-pi, managed to make it directly log in when pi restarts.
david-pi has admin rights, i can't delete david, i get:

Removing crontab ...
Removing user `david' ...
userdel: user chupi is currently used by process 1067
deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel david' returned error code 8. Exiting.

and ps -u david still yields:
PID TTY TIME CMD
1067 ? 00:00:00 systemd
1069 ? 00:00:00 (sd-pam)
1170 ? 00:00:00 pipewire
1171 ? 00:00:00 pipewire
1172 ? 00:00:01 wireplumber
1174 ? 00:00:00 pipewire-pulse
1184 tty1 00:00:00 bash
1190 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
1311 ? 00:00:00 xdg-permission-

Statistics: Posted by dandan21 — Fri Aug 22, 2025 5:16 pm

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