Removing a home directory

[Art Alexion]

On Friday 12 October 2007 11:14, 7230 wrote:
> You can certainly remove a home directory.  What I usually do in such
> circumstances is to re-created the directory as root, then run the
> following on it:
> # chown [user]:[group] -R [directory]
>
> Everything else will then be auto-created when you log back in --except
> your personal data, of course.

OK.  Thanks.  But a clarification please.  

This computer is connected to a windows 2k3 Active Directory domain.  I can 
actually log in as any domain user EXCEPT MYSELF.  This is because the 
permissions in my home directory got screwed up.  Problem is, only I have 
sudo access.

The way I screwed things up is, in fact, invoking 
	chown [user]:[group] -R [directory]

It appears there are two different art users when an active directory domain 
is active.  Perhaps different user numbers?  

So what happens if I remove the home directory, don't recreate it, and just 
log in?
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