Where does SystemD and bash decide what user to run as? RASBIAN

Originally Posted by DrunkenTimelord sudo userdel --remove pi Which SHOULD just remove the user named pi, the default user on rasbian, as well as his home directory. But instead I have this error pop up userdel: user pi is currently used by process 615 after using this to determine the process ps -p 615 -o comm= it said it was named Bash and other occasions it has said (with different numbers) SystemD

Originally Posted by michaelk It was not obvious from your OP that you were running the userdel command as the new user.

Did you exit and logout as user pi before trying to delete pi?

Alternately, instead of deleting pi, couldn't you just rename it?

usermod -l newname pi

Originally Posted by DrunkenTimelord If I am understanding the Moderator correctly, I should be changing "--autologin pi" to " --autologin USERNAME", is that correct?

captain hindsight to the rescue:
i think you should've just removed that option completely.

please give us a link to the exact image you installed.
raspbian is just a common name for all sorts of distros tailored to specific (ARM) hardware.
mine used a graphical desktop, but no display manager; that might be part of the confusion you're experiencing.