[CoLoCo] can't add user - path exists

[David L. Willson]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:45:02 -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote
> I just finished installing hardy on a computer with a separate /home and
> several users. During the install it only created the one user and used the
> same /home as before. When I try to add a new user who also existed before I
> get an error about the path existing. Of course it exists. I didn't format
> /home and want to have the same users as before with their files and
> settings. That's why I have the separate /home. So if I have a path like
> 
> /home/jim
> 
> and I want to make a new user "jim" how do I get around the error and have
> it use the same path?

I just tested in Gutsy, and didn't get the error.  However, the system did NOT correct
ownership of the folder, so a good sysadmin is going to "chown -R newuser.newuser
/home/newuser" after creating the account and pointing it at the recycled folder,
because nothing guarantees that the new user named jim is going to have the same UID as
the old user named jim.