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Bug 633720 - users-admin to restore users that already exist
users-admin to restore users that already exist
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gnome-system-tools
Classification: Deprecated
Component: users-admin
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: system-tools-maint
system-tools-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-11-01 17:44 UTC by Mtt.Castelli
Modified: 2010-11-03 14:37 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Mtt.Castelli 2010-11-01 17:44:15 UTC 
Hi,
the Ubuntu installer, Ubiquity, make you able to re-install over

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbiquityPreserveHome

an old and 'dirty' root Linux system without deleting home, and preserving
your user by just choosing the same name.

The other users left off, but unix-like system are _multiuser_ system, so it is not nice. While UbiquityPreserveHome is cool, rationale, and it should be adopted as a good behavior by other distro. We just need close the circle.

regards.
Comment 1 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2010-11-03 14:37:58 UTC 
The most logical solution for users and developers would be that the installer not only detects one user, but suggests creating accounts for all home folders it finds in /home/. ATM, users-admin will ask if you try to create a user with a name that leads to an existing home directory, so I don't really know what we could do better. Only the installer could make this task easier by showing the list of old users - what users-admin shouldn't do.