On 03/01/08 23:58 -0500, James E. LaBarre wrote: > I'd like to create a completely clean home directory, and then slowly move > in the essential items one by one from a backed-up old home directory. I'm > presuming it should be enough to make a copy of /etc/skel to > /home/username, and chown the entire directory to username:username. Any > other things I should be doing?
Nope, you pretty much have it right there. When doing the same thing, I've generally added a new user then swapped its homedir for mine. This way I can su or login to that second user to compare behavior (and hopefully figure out which config file I'm missing in my new homedir). I find it easier to do this if I dedicate a user to it. YMMV, -porkchop _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
