How to remove a user. Problems after firstboot crashed on F9

[Nigel Henry]

On Monday 04 August 2008 04:41, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 20:28 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > The question is. How do I remove the original user that was partially
> > setup before firstboot crashed.
>
> Command line:  userdel
> GUI tool:  system-config-users

Tried that after Aaron suggested it, and recreated the same user with useradd 
afterwards, but no change.
>
> > If I run adduser, It says that djmons is already a user, but logging
> > in as djmons has no access to /home/djmons, as apparently
> > the /home/djmons directory does not exist.
>
> You could try making the directory, changing its ownership to
> djmons:djmons, then seeing if KDE or Gnome creates the files it needs
> when you log in.

Well the /home/djmons directory did exist, and /etc/group shows djmons there, 
but the permissions for /home/djmons were set for "User" root, "Group" root.

Simply changing them to djmons has resolved the problem. A confusing "at 
first" problem, but as it turned out, dead easy to fix.

> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686

Thanks to both you and Aaron for the replies.

Nigel.