Peter Christy wrote:
> Just in case anyone here is tempted to use kuser in kde-3.4, *DON'T*!
>
> When I did (I know, but I was in a hurry) to try and add an extra group to my
> user permissions, it completely corrupted my user settings, resulting with me
> being locked out of my own home directory!
>
> Luckily the directory was fine, but its taken me a while to figure out what it
> had broken, and fix it all!
>
> If anyone else has the same problem, first you need to use usermod as root to
> rebuild your user settings, then you'll have to use passwd (as root again) to
> get your password settings back. If you don't do the latter, the system won't
> let you in, continually telling you your account has expired, even if you
> reset the expiry date with usermod!
>

It only seems to mess up my user account on my laptop. Set the uid to 0.
I just removed/added the users and chmod'd the home directory. Not sure
about the rest though.

It probably would have done more harm, but it crashed right away. heh.
What's the deal with 3.4, seems like everything is broken. Luckily it
looks so damn nice, otherwise I'd downgrade. hehe.