On Mon,11.May.09, 22:27:57, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
I usually (rightly or wrongly) vim /etc/passwd, then find / -uid 500 -exec
chmod 1000 {} \; and maybe the same if I have to change the gid.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. Here's what it appears to me
that I should do.
First
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:12:59AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon,11.May.09, 22:27:57, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
I usually (rightly or wrongly) vim /etc/passwd, then find / -uid 500 -exec
chmod 1000 {} \; and maybe the same if I have to change the gid.
Let me see if I understand this
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:27:14PM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
Please cc me as I am not currently subscribing to the list.
Since you only just created the user, I'd just go ahead and delete it
(use:
# cd
I really did it this time. While looking over all my options carefully, I noted
that in the documentation for kuser -- kde's user manager -- there's a line
that says delete users at your own risk! That made me a little nervous about
deleting a user with any method I chose. So I noticed that I
I executed deluser --remove-all-files --backup username and it
searched for files to remove and backed up three files from the user's
home directory -- but it left the user's home directory in place with
its contents. The group and user were deleted, so the remaining files
have owners of 500
Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter
-- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct.
After looking at man pages and archives, I see that kuser in the past
has done well creating accounts but not modifying them. Is that still
true with
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter
-- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct.
After looking at man pages and archives, I see that kuser in the past
has done
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter
-- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct.
After looking at man pages and archives, I see that kuser
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:27:14PM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
Kuser is the KDE gui that's supposed to take the place of the command
line user management. It follows the Red Hat convention of users uid
starting at 500 instead of the Debian rule that starts them at 1000.
If the program
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:29:04PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter
-- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct.
After looking
Alex Samad wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:29:04PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter
-- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must
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