Re: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user

2009-10-15 Thread AG
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, I have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new account for her and transfer existing files over (excluding the KDE conf

Re: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user

2009-10-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: > Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, I > have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new account > for her and transfer existing files over (excluding the KDE config files > which is where t

Re: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user

2009-10-14 Thread green
AG wrote at 2009-10-14 17:17 -0500: > Can anyone see any potential gotchas to this approach, or recommend a > more sophisticated way of accomplishing the same objective? Perhaps I have missed something, but can you not just try moving the offending config files? Like (without user's KDE runni

Re: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user

2009-10-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091015_015725, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 15. 10. 2009 00:17:42 je AG napisal(a): > > Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, > > I > > have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new > > account > > for her and transfer existing files over (excludi

Re: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user

2009-10-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091014_154032, Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: AG [mailto:computing.acco...@googlemail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:18 PM > > > > Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, I > > have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new > > accoun

Re: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user

2009-10-14 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 15. 10. 2009 00:17:42 je AG napisal(a): > Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, > I > have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new > account > for her and transfer existing files over (excluding the KDE config > files > which is where the

RE: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: AG [mailto:computing.acco...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:18 PM > > Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, I > have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new > account > for her and transfer existing files over (excl