Reinstalled OS--Can't get to user acct.

mooreted · 01-29-2004, 11:55 PM

I reinstalled MDK 9.2. My user account was mooreted and /home/mooreted. When I reinstalled I made the mistake of naming the account ted so now I have /home/mooreted and /home/ted. I can log in as ted but I cannot log in as mooreted and I cannot access the files in /home/mooreted unless I am root. What the hell do I do now?

Hmm, don't see any way to delete this message.

I changed ownership of all the files I could not gain access to. I can access everything. I just wish I hadn't lost all my bookmarks. Oh well.

whansard · 01-30-2004, 12:39 AM

if there's nothing important in /home/ted, you can remove that directory, then
rename /home/mooreted to /home/ted, and chown the files to ted.

you can chown the /home/mooreted directory to ted.

you can create a user named mooreted, and make that his home directory, and
chown the files to mooreted.

there's plenty of other options too.

mooreted · 01-30-2004, 08:55 AM

Wow, why didn't I think of that. I think that is a great idea. I'll just delete /home/ted and chown /home/mooreted. Thank you so much.