Revive corrupt user

[Frank Cox]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:37:56 -0700
Alex Makhlin <makhlina at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is the question: Is there any way to backup my existing user info 
> so that I can just restore the backup when I need to and have all of my 
> user preferences set the way I left them? I have tried backing up the 
> "Home" folder but after restoring it, I still had the same problem.

I would log in as a different user, su - ,  and make a tar of /home/myuser.
Then when you blow things up, log in as the different user, su -, rm
-r /home/myuser and restore your tar file.

It probably won't work right if you try to do this while logged in as myuser so
start as a different user.  You can set up a "junk" user just for that purpose.

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