how to fully delete user account?

[William Mattison]

The language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese.  Not what was wanted!  So I
thought I could just delete the account and re-create it.  I used the Users and Groups GUI
to delete the user account.  I did check that the home directory for that account was
gone.  Then I re-created the account with Users and Groups.  When the user first tried to
log in, everything was in simplified Chinese!  I re-tried all this with an added reboot
between deleting and re-creating the account.  It was still simplified Chinese.  All other
user accounts are English.  Where is the language preference for that one user account
"remembered" even after the account is deleted, and how do I clear it?  No one
here knows enough simplified Chinese to read/understand the simplified Chinese menu
entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon labels, etc.  Or how can I as root
reset that account's preferences back to default without becoming that user?

Thank-you in advance for your help.
Bill.

how to fully delete user account? [SOLVED]

[William Mattison]

Good evening,

Nalan provided the needed information.  The directory
"/var/lib/AccountsService/users/" did have a configuration file for the deleted
user.  I deleted that file, re-created the user, logged in as that user, and everything
was English.  Thank-you, Nalan.

Bill.



----- Original Message -----
>  From: William Mattison <wcmattison(a)yahoo.com&gt;
>  To: &quot;users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&quot; <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Cc: 
>  Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:52 PM
>  Subject: how to fully delete user account?
>  
> T he language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese.  Not what was 
>  wanted!  So I thought I could just delete the account and re-create it.  I used 
>  the Users and Groups GUI to delete the user account.  I did check that the home 
>  directory for that account was gone.  Then I re-created the account with Users 
>  and Groups.  When the user first tried to log in, everything was in simplified 
>  Chinese!  I re-tried all this with an added reboot between deleting and 
>  re-creating the account.  It was still simplified Chinese.  All other user 
>  accounts are English.  Where is the language preference for that one user 
>  account "remembered" even after the account is deleted, and how do I 
>  clear it?  No one here knows enough simplified Chinese to read/understand the 
>  simplified Chinese menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon 
>  labels, etc.  Or how can I as root reset that account's preferences back to 
>  default without becoming that user?
>  
>  Thank-you in advance for your help.
>  Bill.
>

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:52:09PM -0700, William Mattison wrote:
>  The language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese.  Not
>  what was wanted!  So I thought I could just delete the account and
>  re-create it.  I used the Users and Groups GUI to delete the user
>  account.  I did check that the home directory for that account was
>  gone.  Then I re-created the account with Users and Groups.  When the
>  user first tried to log in, everything was in simplified Chinese!  I
>  re-tried all this with an added reboot between deleting and
>  re-creating the account.  It was still simplified Chinese.  All other
>  user accounts are English.  Where is the language preference for that
>  one user account "remembered" even after the account is deleted, and
>  how do I clear it?  No one here knows enough simplified Chinese to
>  read/understand the simplified Chinese menu entries, buttons, prompts,
>  messages, application icon labels, etc.  Or how can I as root reset
>  that account's preferences back to default without becoming that user? 
I think you've already ruled out the user's ~/.i18n file, which is
sourced by /etc/profile.d/lang.sh and lang.csh at login-time, so the
next thing I'd check is the preferences saved by the accounts service.
Check for a configuration file named after the user in
/var/lib/AccountsService/users.

HTH,

Nalin

[Reindl Harald]

Am 16.04.2013 21:52, schrieb William Mattison:
>  The language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese.  Not
> what was wanted!  So I thought I could just delete the account and re-create it.  I used
> the Users and Groups GUI to delete the user account.  I did check that the home directory
> for that account was gone.  Then I re-created the account with Users and Groups.  When the
> user first tried to log in, everything was in simplified Chinese!  I re-tried all this
> with an added reboot between deleting and re-creating the account.  It was still
> simplified Chinese.  All other user accounts are English.  Where is the language
> preference for that one user account "remembered" even after the account is
> deleted, and how do I clear it?  No one here knows enough simplified Chinese to
> read/understand the simplified Chinese menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages,
> application icon labels, etc.  Or how can I as root reset that account's preferences
> back to default without becoming that user? 
[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ userdel --help
Usage: userdel [options] LOGIN
Options:
  -f, --force                   force removal of files,
                                even if not owned by user
  -h, --help                    display this help message and exit
  -r, --remove                  remove home directory and mail spool
  -R, --root CHROOT_DIR         directory to chroot into
  -Z, --selinux-user            remove any SELinux user mapping for the user

and no, there is for sure NOTHING outside the userhome
type "ls -lha -R /etc/skel/" and look what is there
this folder contains anything which a new user get's as environment

[William Mattison]

I forgot to mention: this is a Fedora-18 system.  - Bill.



----- Original Message -----
>  From: William Mattison <wcmattison(a)yahoo.com&gt;
>  To: &quot;users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&quot; <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Cc: 
>  Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:52 PM
>  Subject: how to fully delete user account?
>  
> T he language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese.  Not what was 
>  wanted!  So I thought I could just delete the account and re-create it.  I used 
>  the Users and Groups GUI to delete the user account.  I did check that the home 
>  directory for that account was gone.  Then I re-created the account with Users 
>  and Groups.  When the user first tried to log in, everything was in simplified 
>  Chinese!  I re-tried all this with an added reboot between deleting and 
>  re-creating the account.  It was still simplified Chinese.  All other user 
>  accounts are English.  Where is the language preference for that one user 
>  account "remembered" even after the account is deleted, and how do I 
>  clear it?  No one here knows enough simplified Chinese to read/understand the 
>  simplified Chinese menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon 
>  labels, etc.  Or how can I as root reset that account's preferences back to 
>  default without becoming that user?
>  
>  Thank-you in advance for your help.
>  Bill.
>

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 12:52 -0700, William Mattison wrote:
>  The language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese.  Not
> what was wanted!  So I thought I could just delete the account and re-create it.  I used
> the Users and Groups GUI to delete the user account.  I did check that the home directory
> for that account was gone.  Then I re-created the account with Users and Groups.  When the
> user first tried to log in, everything was in simplified Chinese!  I re-tried all this
> with an added reboot between deleting and re-creating the account.  It was still
> simplified Chinese.  All other user accounts are English.  Where is the language
> preference for that one user account "remembered" even after the account is
> deleted, and how do I clear it?  No one here knows enough simplified Chinese to
> read/understand the simplified Chinese menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages,
> application icon labels, etc.  Or how can I as root reset that account's preferences
> back to default without becoming that user?
>  
>  Thank-you in advance for your help.
>  Bill.
>   
You don t mention which version of Fedora this is, nor which desktop the
user account is configured for.

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