{Solved} any way to recover deleted user

piotr · 2009-10-01 13:59:26

Hi,
I had comitted a terible mistake. I have deleted user with userdel (name) command and now I cannot access my home directory. Permission denied.
I can access it as root, so no problem, all the files are there. But, is there any way to recover the deleted user, so I can access my home directory as normal user? A help will be very much appreciated.

Last edited by piotr (2009-10-01 23:01:10)

arkham · 2009-10-01 14:00:01

What about adding it again?

piotr · 2009-10-01 14:01:22

It does not work. I get the message that the home directory already exists.

brazzmonkey · 2009-10-01 14:04:59

Well then, just rename the home folder, re-create your user then move all the data back to the proper home folder.

clmates · 2009-10-01 14:10:05

Hi.

piotr wrote:

It does not work. I get the message that the home directory already exists.

pass the -M option to useradd to avoid creating user home directory

pass the -u option to specify the user ID to use, look at this with ls -alln /home/ then you should see the uid number side to your old home dir

piotr · 2009-10-01 23:00:44

Done. Thanks a lot. Arch community is really great.

arkham · 2009-10-01 23:12:57

piotr wrote:

Done. Thanks a lot. Arch community is really great.

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