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@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 Thanks to both you and Aaron for the replies. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
