...>Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:26:53 -0800 (PST) From: Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey -- good news :-)Actually it worked quite fine by untarring my home directory first. When I did "adduser" it just asked if I wanted to use a different directory and I said "no" then it asked if I wanted to do a "chown" on the directory and happily it did so. So, all my
I'd guess that 'adduser' is a user friendly wrapper for the standard(?) Unix 'useradd' -- on the latter you won't get a nice dialog: either 1-line success, or error & usage message.
Followup Q for kbob: your stressed the -p (preserve) option for tar.
From some man pages it sounds like the right thing to do.
From other man pages (solaris 5.8) and web links it sounds like extract by root makes this automatically the default.
From my own experience, since Redhat 7.2 (or maybe even 6.1), extract by root always preserved everything -- w/o requesting the -p option.
So I got curious and tar'ed and untar'ed as root between BSD, solaris and mandrake 9.x, and it turned out just right -- w/o the -p option.
Am I mississig something, or is the documentation not up2date, or what?
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