Accidentally Deleted Public Folder/$Home warning

[jimwg]

Greetings!

While trying to "fix" one of the user accounts on my flash drive's Maya XFCE user accounts (accidentally deleted it's Public folder and any new folder I make under the same name lacks the profile icon other Public folders have, so I suppose it really isn't a real one). Now whenever I boot up or switch users, I get a box reading; "User's $Home/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. User's $Home directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users."

Any hints how to remedy both situations? Thanks!

Jim in NYC

[mizzle]

Delete the home folder you created.
Delete the user's account
userdel <username>
useradd username -m

This will recreate the user's home directory and allow them to log in as normal.

[jimwg]

Delete the home folder you created.
Delete the user's account
userdel <username>
useradd username -m

This will recreate the user's home directory and allow them to log in as normal.

olders

Thanks for swift reply! Is there a way to do this without deleting the Documents and Photo folders?

[atreyu]

olders

Thanks for swift reply! Is there a way to do this without deleting the Documents and Photo folders?

You can try changing the ownership / permissions of the home directory all subdirectories/files, e.g.:

chown -R <userid>:<groupid> /home/<userid>

chmod 0700 /home/<userid>