[CoLoCo] can't add user - path exists

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Chomafin <chomafin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why not rename /home/jim to /home/Jim, create the new user, then copy all
> non . files over? Then you'll have a new home dir/configs and you can just
> copy what configs you might want.
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> I thought about that or something similar but that isn't quite the answer
> I'm looking for. I would really like to be able to add a user and have it
> use the current path that already exists with all the files and folders.

You DO NOT want to reuse /home/jim intact with all its hidden folders
from a prior release, or you may encounter strange problems with
gnome, etc. What I do is keep a common partition for storage of
permanent files, create a new /home/userid directory for a new
release, then symlink the directories in the common partition into the
new home partition. That way your new software will not be confused
with configuration data from older releases.


For a complete howto, reference
http://www.sidux.com/index.php?module=pnWikka&tag=SharedHomeDirHowTo

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