Mike Branda wrote:
>On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 17:13 -0500, Eben King wrote:
>
>
>>On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Mike Branda wrote:
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>>
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>>>On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 14:21 -0500, Eben King wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Dennis McDonald wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I recently upgraded to FC4 and was not able to use uppercase character in
>>>>>the username, so I lost my /Dennis and had to create /dennis. Is there
>>>>>some way to get back to this login? I tried creating another user with
>>>>>/Dennis as home but got connection errors trying to login. I can copy
>>>>>documents and reinstall apps, but email and contacts are my biggest
>>>>>problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>I think "usermod -l Dennis -d /home/Dennis dennis" will do what you want.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>If that merely reassigns the home dir to /home/Dennis, then "rmdir
>>>>/home/Dennis && mv /home/dennis /home/Dennis" should do the trick.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Be careful with the above!! Eben, I think that his original files were
>>>in Dennis with the cap D. If so, the above will remove all the files he
>>>wants to save.
>>>
>>>
>>If your files are in /home/Dennis, rmdir won't mess with them (it'll only
>>remove _empty_ dirs), but usermod might.
>>
>>
>
>ahhhh
>
>
>
>>>If indeed the files you want to keep are in /home/Dennis:
>>>
>>>I would log out of the window manager if you're using one. Do a ctrl +
>>>alt + F1 and switch to the first console. Log in as root.
>>>
>>>
>>Actually, there may still be some files in use. Where are the files now?
>>
>>
>>
>
>On my system lsof says I'm good usually but you're right to that
>possibility too.
>
>
>
>>>The reason for the chown is it's possible that your login connection
>>>errors were a permissions issue.
>>>
>>>
>>Yeah, and does "usermod -l" (which may be all that's needed, depending on
>>where the files are) create a new UID or keep the old one? I bet it just
>>changes $LOGNAME, without changing the UID.
>>
>>
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Thanks
I moved /dennis to _bak, then copied /Dennis to /dennis, then chown
/dennis, and all is back to the way it was.
Thanks again
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