I am new to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), I tried to create a new VM, but the default username is annoying. Say, my gmail is example.email@gmail.com, the username will be example_email.
How can I change it to something like: smith, instead of example_email?
Thank you very much!
You cannot change the default username as it is based upon the Google Account identity.
You can use a different username by creating your own private/public keys and specifying the username along with the SSH public key (ssh-rsa) when you create the instance or by modifying the SSH settings on an existing instance.
Adding or removing instance-level public SSH keys
Then you can log into the instance using SSH and your desired username (smith).
