On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 02:17:27PM +0000, Alex Birchall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For some reason (maybe a slip of the wrist?), a home folder for an
> ordinary user on my Ubuntu server has disappeared (nothing vital lost).
> The user is still there.  Can I just recreate the user's home folder, or
> should I delete the user and create another one?

cp -R /etc/skel /home/username
chown -R username.username /home/username

That'll copy the skeleton userdir format and chown it to the required 
person. If your using a different group setup (like using the "user" group 
instead of making one per user) just change the username after the . 
on chown.

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