FYI Andrew... On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:38:14 +0000, Andrew Mason <andrew@> wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2005 3:56 am, Andrew wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:53, Eric Dunbar wrote: > > > Now, how do I "re-activate" the pre-existing users on /home? > > > Would this work or do I risk destroying the data in the directories? > > > > THAT is a good point. There must be a way to restore a user's place at > > home. I have no friggin clue how.. As soon as I learn that trick, it > > will be added into the howto. > when you do useradd just use the -d flag and make sure that the home dir is > then chown 'd to the new user id and group it... :)
Hmm. I ended up experimenting with a "junk" account that I fortuitiously had created only days before, called ed (guess where that comes from ;-). useradd -u 504 ed passwd ed (obviously you change 504 to match your pre-existing UID... easy way to find out what it is is "ls -l" in one of the directories that belongs to that user) The -d flag doesn't seem to do much since it merely specifies a "home" and the default home will (in all likelihood) be the same home as you'd specify. -u was crucial since I didn't want to have to change all the UID flags for files to match a new UID. Now I've got problems with SMB file sharing but I don't think that's directly related to this account re-creation (though, it might have to do with Group IDs?). At least I got AppleTalk file sharing going after installing netatalk (merely by turning on the atalk service in WebMin) but afs is a less-than ideal solution compared to SMB :-( (no support for long file names, perhaps if I upgrade netatalk to the latest stable version 2.02 from the 1.69 contained in YDL 4...). > > > "2a- You will meet a text-mode login, login as root and add your 'user' > > > account: useradd <username> [ENTER] > > > passwd <username> [ENTER]" > > > > > > From > > > > > > <http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?t=339> Eric. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
