Screwed up user

[Net Llama!]

On 05/01/03 17:30, Harry G wrote:
> I have 4 users on a Suse 8.1 machine, primararily using KDE.  One has a lot of 
> screwed up settings for printing, menus, etc., but there are a lot of items 
> that would take a while to rebuild.
> 
> Can I:
> 
> 1.  Create a new user
> 
> 2.  Copy all needed data from the old one to the new one
> 
> 3.  Delete/rename the old one's directory
> 
> 4.  Rename the new one to the old name
> 
> Will this work?

Probably, although you'd also need to fix perms & ownership.  Why not 
just deleted ~/.kde* for the user who is horked?

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