Topic: can't create user account

[scott]

Yes sir, that fixed it.  Thank you very much.

[scott]

I take that last message back.  It put my account back into server-manager, but my bash shell is still messed up.  In order to fix this I deleted the account from server-manager and recreated it.  It works now.  Unfortunately, I lost my email.  I am not sure if I should restore it from backup because the config files are also restored and it may screw up the account again.scott wrote:

[Michiel]

> and recreated it.  It works now.  Unfortunately, I lost my
> email.  I am not sure if I should restore it from backup

Just restore the following files from your backup and everything should be back in place:
/home/e-smith/files/user/scott/Mail
/home/e-smith/files/user/scott/Maildir
/home/e-smith/files/user/scott/home

You might also have to reset the ownership of these files:
chown -R scott:scott /home/e-smith/files/user/scott

M

[Terry Werry]

Terry Youre a bloody Idiot Mate!

[Michiel]

> Terry Youre a bloody Idiot Mate!

I'm not going to contradict you on this one But what made you come to this conclusion?

[Anonymous]

cool. this fixed it for me too:).

[terencem]

> You might also have to reset the ownership of these files:
chown -R scott:scott /home/e-smith/files/user/scott

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Just in case someone is reading this thread later, and wonders why that command doesn't work... it should be "users" as in "/home/e-smith/files/users/scott".  

Anyway, thanks to Michiel for all his great work.