How can I change the login name for OpenWrt?

[NikoYomi]

I noticed that the login name for OpenWrt is "root," and I would like to customize it to a name of my choice. Does anyone know how to modify this?

[frollic]

Changing the username "root"

I have tried on 21.02-RC3, not working, (error on logging). I tried the 3 methods, plain password, hash password and shadow (with installing all shadow packages and adding a user...) No success...

[NikoYomi]

@anon50098793

luci-app-acl

luci-app-acl It worked! Thank you very much! Unfortunately, SSH still only allows login as root and doesn’t accept the modified username.

[elbertmai]

SSH on OpenWrt works the same way as other Linux distributions: the logins correspond to whatever is in /etc/passwd. You can't change the name of the root account, but you can create another user with the desired username and allow elevation with sudo.