Re: How to properly re-establish users after a reinstall?

Thanks Craig. I can't imagine how this could have come about
as I know that hda7 was originally specified as just "/home"

But I really appreciate your response and guidance.

On 4/20/09, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> it appears that you have mounted /dev/hda7 as /home/joe rather than
> just /home
>
> if you haven't created anything else (i.e., users, in /home, you could
> probably just change the mount point in /etc/fstab and
> 'umount /home/joe' and 'mount -a' and everything would be fixed. You
> would of course want users named joe and patti and if you haven't
> already created them, you could figure out which uid number they had
> previously...
>
> ls -ldn /home/joe/*
>
> and their user & group numbers from your old system should be displayed.
>
> Then you could create them again with a 'useradd' command like,
>
> useradd -u 501(or ??) -g 501(or ??)
>
> type 'useradd --help' for information.
>
> Craig
>
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