How to change user name on Octoprint on my RPi?

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I have decided that the login name that I chose for my printer when I installed Octoprint on my RPi is too cumbersome to type. I would like to change the name that I use to log into my Octoprint (my machine, not this community). Can someone tell me how to do that without having to reinstall it on my RPi?
Thanks!

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Create a new user, optionally remove the old one.

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Or you could manually edit the users.yaml file, changing your username there. On OctoPi, the file should be located in /home/pi/.octoprint/users.yaml.

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No, please don't use sudo to edit the file. That will mess with the permissions and OctoPrint won't be able to access it anymore as the user 'pi'.

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Oh yeah, hadn't figured that it was used by the pi user, edited to remove the sudo part

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Perfect. Thanks for this easy way of doing what I need!