On 7/25/05, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l george > > total 0 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 george users 48 Jul 25 12:12 Desktop > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l geo > > total 0 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 geo users 48 Jul 25 11:38 Desktop > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ > > Just to be on the safe side I'd try: > > # chown -R geo:users /home/geo > # chown -R george:users /home/george > > Just to ensure that the permissions are cascading down correctly. The only > reason I'm suggesting this is that, by the sounds of things, you're trying > to recreate a new user using files from an old user. > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > Actually I could not use the old files to recreate this account. useradd -d /home/george -G users,wheel,gdm,floppy,audio,cdrom,games,cdrw -m george. Per the man page for useradd -d home_dir The new user will be created using home_dir as the value for the user's login directory. The default is to append the login name to default_home and use that as the login directory name. I could not recreate the account until I had renamed the old folder (george 2, one of the backups I have). Once I renamed the old folder, I could recreate the account with that command line.
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