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sudo adduser --home /home/test --no-create-home test --uid 1002

It works, but you need to be real careful, else you trip over the permissions. The correct way to do this, my example assumes user...

Thanks for the clues, is it just me or is there an easy way to do this? I had to do another Jaunty install and could not find anything during the install which points to connecting up old users to...

For once I decide to do a wipe and install, OS only. I had already put /home into another partition and have been using that. So then comes Jaunty and decided to just reinstall the OS only and reuse...

Could you elaborate on how to add back users? I get the same can't use message and there seems no easy way out.

I haven't done anything with backports before, so a couple of simple questions ... I am not sure what backports are.

Is there any known problems with FF3 from the backports for Gutsy?

If you...

I use what you have, but I always break out /home as a separate large directory to prevent user files from mixing with and fragging the system files partition. Just a old school type of thing I guess...

I was going to give mediawiki a try, this doesn't look good.

Sound support needs fixing quick if Ubuntu expects to make a run for the hearts and minds of web 2.0 users. It's simply broken.