> Some one had created a user called operator. and I wanted to get rid of
> it..
> So I used linuxconf.
As root, of course.
> unfortunately they had set the users home directory to be /root
Shit man. Is this possible? Someone with non-root permissions to be
specifying the directory as /root?
> Linuxconf removed the /root directory.
> linuxconf does give you an option to archive the home directory ,
> unfortunately it doesn't say what that home directory is :(. perhaps if
> it had then I wouldn't be picking up the pieces
May be you will want to re-create the same user and see what happens?
Does it restore the directory? If the directory is not visible then may
be a record is kept in temp somewhere? Let us restore the user and see?
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