FC5 Gnome progress

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Wed Apr 5 08:03:46 UTC 2006


antonio montagnani wrote:
> 2006/4/5, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>:
> 
>>On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:50:47PM +0200, antonio montagnani wrote:
>>
>>
>>>You mean a freshly created user??? if so, no I have not tried; and
>>>until friday I can't try as I will be out of office.
>>>In case, what shall I do??? I suppose to have to erase something but what???
>>
>>Rename your old user directory to something different.
>>Delete the old user, and create it new from scratch.
>>Log in as the new user once. Log out again.
>>Copy all the files from the old user directory but those
>>which are already there.
>>Keep the old renamed directory for a while, just
>>in case.

> 
> how do you manage the root user???

Do you mean "Will the same steps work for root"

The answer is that they will, but it would be a little
scary. OTOH, a rescue boot CDROM can fix things up.

Mike
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