How to properly re-establish users after a reinstall?

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 19:53 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Looks like your /home partition was being equated as /hda7 - which makes sense.
> 
> umount /dev/hda7
> mkdir /home
> mount -t ext3 (or whatever it is) /dev/hda7 /home
> df -k
> vi /etc/passwd
> ls -al ~joe
> ls -al ~pattie
> 
> 
> You can change the mount point via /etc/fstab
> You can change the users home via /etc/passwd
> Be sure to chown/chgrp all the files to their corresponding users
> 
> cd ~joe | chown -R joe:joe *
> cd ~pattie | chown -R pattie:pattie *
----
just a comment...I don't generally recommend to people to directly
edit /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow (even with vi) just because
the problems caused by a careless edit are truly vexing. Perhaps that is
one way people can learn but it is not the thing to do for the most
users.

Craig


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