Hello Tim,
Tuesday, July 24, 2001, 11:19:38 PM, you wrote:
TH> Personally I would have tried and fixed the "corrupted" userID before I
TH> would have deleted the user. That should always be the very last option
TH> when all else fails. But at this point it's a bit late for that huh? :0)
TH> Never go through an just vi /etc/passwd, or whatever editor you use.
TH> Learn basic movements in vi and use the command vipw. It's a command
TH> that all *nix systems. It will edit the /etc/passwd and then make sure
TH> it's propigated to /etc/passwd.master, or whatever the system decides to
TH> call that database.
TH> From there delete the line that contains the userID. Then use vigr and
TH> remove the line with the userID there as well. It will do the same thing
TH> about updating /etc/group.
TH> From there change the permissions to the /home directories. I'm assuming
TH> you'd like to keep those. Change them to root. chown root:root -R
TH> /home/$USER.
TH> Then create the user using adduser. The syntax would look like adduser
TH> userID. Set the passwd, and then change the permissions to the home
TH> directory. chown userID:userID -r /home/$USER. From there make sure
TH> everything in the directory is owned by the "NEW" userID.
TH> Now su - userID. Make sure you can move through, run a few commands and
TH> make sure you don't have .*rc files that don't have access to things like
TH> /tmp or something like that.
TH> Make sure you correct all those issues and then login. It's a bit of
TH> work around, but at this point it appears to be the only way you can
TH> really accomplish what you want here.
TH> Hopefully that leads you in a better direction.
TH> tdh
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TH> | Hi,
TH> | I am trying to delete a user account (mine) which got corrupted.
TH> | userconf gave an error, so I deleted manually every thing I could find
TH> | relating to this account (in retrospect, probably a mistake)
TH> | Now when I go to recreate the account (adduser cj) I get vipn
TH> | lockfile (etc/ptmp) is present.
TH> | I mchecked that file, but it doesn't appear to have any reference to
TH> | the account.
TH> | Any suggestions on how I can fix this ?
TH> |
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Thanks for that, I'll print out your instructions for next time I stuff
up :)
btw, when I use userconf, I get errors about not being able to read
certain files, but I seems to work ok. I have password length set to
4, and userconf tells me its too short, but accept the password
anyway :/
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