I executed deluser --remove-all-files --backup 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" -- the
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
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
>> (us
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 unde
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.
>
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 corr
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 lo
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 i
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 i
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
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
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