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[David King]

>> And now for something completely different.... If I can't get the / 
>> usr
>> partition to work is there any way to recreate the user  
>> directories from
>> the password file? The contents will be lost but nobody uses their  
>> folder
>> anyway, I just need all the /usr/home folders created... I could  
>> write a
>> script, but I thought I'd check first to see if something already  
>> exists.......
> That's trivial.  In /bin/sh syntax:
> # cd /home
> # awk -F: '$3>999{print $1}' /etc/passwd | xargs mkdir
> # for i in *; do chown $i:$i $i; done

It might help to copy the stuff out of /usr/share/skel, too, like  
this (untested):

cd /home
for user in `awk -F: '$3>999{print $1}' /etc/passwd`; do
	cp -r /usr/share/skel ./$user

	for dotfile in $user/dot.*; do
		mv $dotfile `echo $dotfile | sed 's#/dot\.#.#'`
	done

	chown -R $user:$user $user
done

Take a look at /usr/sbin/adduser to see how it does it

> That will create home directories for all users whose UID
> is greater than 999.
>
> Best regards
>    Oliver
>
>
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David King
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