Lost User
Don Flinn
flinn at alum.mit.edu
Thu Nov 17 04:26:29 UTC 2005
Hi
The other week I was trying to remove OpenOffice to install OpenOffice
2.0 because of the repeated crashing of the Fedora version of
OpenOffice. Somehow, I made my login inoperable. When I tried to login
the screen went blank for some time then came back to the login screen.
Logging in as root I created another user. Although I can reach the old
user directories through /home/oldusr it is a real pain especially with
my eudora mail (can't read my old mail). I tried to recreate the
password for the old user by using passwd, but that didn't cure my
problem. Anyone have a solution to get my old user login to work again.
Don
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Don Flinn
President, Flint Security LLC
Tel: 781-856-7230
Fax: 781-631-7693
e-mail: flinn at alum.mit.edu
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