Default user stopped being respected (only on WSLv1 profiles, WSLv2 are okay)

[vadimkantorov]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2715]

WSL Version

2.0.9.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

No response

Distro Version

Linux version 4.4.0-22621-Microsoft (Microsoft@Microsoft.com) (gcc version 5.4.0 (GCC) ) #2506-Microsoft Fri Jan 01 08:00:00 PST 2016

Other Software

No response

Repro Steps

On my machine I have both WSLv1 and WSLv2 distros and Terminal profiles.

For many years I had it somehow set up that WSLv1 profile in my Terminal logs me in as vadimkantorov by default. I just rebooted the laptop, and somehow WSLv1 logs me into as root. I created a /etc/wsl.conf with

[user]
default=vadimkantorov

but it did not help.

WSLv2 profiles still log me in as vadimkantorov correctly

The ubuntu.exe config --default-user vadimkantorov affects only WSLv2 as it appears

How can I fix my WSLv1 to log me in as vadimkantorov?

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UPD: I just fixed it by appending --user vadimkantorov to my wsl.exe command line in Terminal config: https://superuser.com/a/1566031/813257, but it would still be nice to know how to fix it from within the distro, as /etc/wsl.conf appears to have no effect

[OneBlue]

/logs

[benhillis]

I was not able to reproduce this. dmesg likely has some errors.

[vadimkantorov]

@benhillis If I stumble on this again, I'll add information. For now, it seems to me that it might have coincided with some Windows Update - and this might have been the reason.

I also had spurious keyboard layouts added to Windows (this is a 15-years old Windows bug affecting all non-English layout users, but still not fixed), and this is typically a sign that Windows had installed some update.