Screwed up user

Harry G hg57
Mon May 17 11:47:01 PDT 2004


On Thursday 01 May 2003 11:07 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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?

Would a new one be built on the next login?

Harry G



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