<div dir="ltr"><div>In the end, I told it not to "Create a home directory", but to DO create the user.<br><br>Guess what, when I logged as root, the home directory was already assigned as $HOME for the user on the Users and Groups appp regardless. I was expecting having to go to the "Users and Gropups" app and add the directory manually, but I was gladly surprised to see it already assigned. Weird<br>
<br></div>JP<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Tim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Allegedly, on or about 20 August 2013, Javier Perez sent:<br>
<div class="im">> I have a directory on its own /home partition<br>
><br>
> /home/username<br>
><br>
> During installation it ask to set an Administrator user.<br>
> One of the options is "Create a home directory for this user"<br>
><br>
> What happens here if the directory already exist, will it be erased?<br>
> Or will the installer use the existing directory?<br>
<br>
</div>In a situation like that, I'd be inclined to create a completely new<br>
user, then deal with adding an old user, post-install. You've got a<br>
much easier time testing how things will behave when working with a<br>
running system. And having a new, spare, user logon to do any debugging<br>
on a system is very handy, anyway.<br>
<br>
But I can't imagine a setup deleting an already existing homespace, it'd<br>
be a really dumb way of handling user accounts. Having said that, being<br>
asked to "create a home directory" is a bit odd, too. And I can imagine<br>
the possibility of setting up a new user in a prior user's files might<br>
have the chance of installing a few default files over the top of<br>
existing ones, ones that might have been customised.<br>
<br>
All that sort of things goes to show why it can be useful to set up a<br>
completely different user, then experiment with the account editor on a<br>
running system, rather than one that's in the process of installing.<br>
You've got more chance to poke around and try things, without facing the<br>
prospect of the install doing something you don't like, without finding<br>
out until it's too late. Or having to restart the install several times<br>
over, trying out different options.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>------------------------------<br> /\_/\ <br> |O O| <a href="mailto:pepebuho@gmail.com">pepebuho@gmail.com</a><br> ~~~~ Javier Perez<br> ~~~~ While the night runs<br>
~~~~ toward the day...<br> m m Pepebuho watches <br> from his high perch.
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