HELP! I deleted my /home directory!!!

thechosen0ne · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 36

I just got gentoo installed and working so nicely... then i go and accidentally delete /home...

How can I rebuild this folder? I'd imagine I have to set certain permissions on the folder (which is the main part i need to know) and then remove and add my user name to recreate the user's directory.

Thanks for the help!

DopeGhoti · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:30 am Post subject:

as root,

ender wiggin · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:33 am Post subject:

mkdir /home
mkdir /home/username
cp /etc/skel/* /home/username
chown -R username.users /home/username
chmod 700 /home/username

...should get you a working home dir. Remember to replace "username" with your actual login. Hope you didn't have any files there yet!
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ender wiggin · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:44 am Post subject:

DopeGhoti - you must type quicker than I do

Some comments - since you run mkdir /home as root, it will already have user and group set to root.root. Also, with the default umask of 022, the new directories will have 755 by default.

You also want to copy the files from /etc/skel/ to each home dir - that gives the user a .bash_profile and a .bashrc to set up their shell. This is done by useradd by default.

What do you think?
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thechosen0ne · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 36

Thanks! All I needed to do was