On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 20:30 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > I have a machine with an apparently failing hard drive, which I > plan to give away to someone who may replace the drive. Of course I want > my password and root's password off it. > > Root is not a problem; I simply change the password to a dummy I > can remember, and let the recipient change it again, right? > > How about the user? I'd like to do a little more than that -- but > not just delete the user and create a new one. The currently most likely > recipient describes himself as a newbie -- meaning, I believe, to linux. > > I don't have to worry about actual data; I had wiped the drive > with DBAN, and this is a new install, onto which I have yet to copy > anything from any backups. > > But I do have various tweaks and adjustments -- arrangements of > panels and launchers, default tabs for browsers and the gnome terminal, > the workspace switcher, etc., etc. > > No doubt, when he's done this a while, he'll alter them all. But > if it were me, I'd prefer starting with *something* to work from, rather > than having to re-invent my whole workspace(s) from scratch. Can I give > that to him? How? I don't understand the question. What's wrong with just handing it to him? I presume all sensitive data has been scrubbed, so what's the problem? If he doesn't like the username Foo you can just change it to Bar in /etc/passwd. No need to change the uid so from that point on all files previously belonging to Foo will now belong to Bar. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
