Although I am currently running KDE4.04 on F9 in which I allowed the user area to be created from scratch during install (or using useradd) after the install, I have a question as part of advance planning for when I upgrade other systems which have pre-existing user areas in F8. Does anyone have any experience in installing F9, and then copying back pre-existing user directories from their original F8 files. What I mean by this is that the F9 install is done without creating any users apart from root. Then the appropriate user lines are added back into passwd, group, shadow and gshadow in /etc and then the pre-existing files from /home/user1 /home/user2 and so on are copied back into /home from backup. If this is done and then one of these users logs in to KDE4.x using only pre-existing files that were from KDE3.5 in the earlier system, then a) will the user be able to successfully login to KDE4.0x? b) if the user can login will there be any nasty consequences from the fact that the kde config files relate to the previous 3.5 files? c) If there are nasty consequences then which files should be changed or deleted before the user logs in? d) If it is mostly OK but there are a few minor watchpoints then what little things may bite, and how do you fix them? In addition are there any trick needed for getting ssh-add to run in F9? I tried adding a file into .kde/Autostart/ which executed /usr/bin/ssh-add but it did not seem to execute when during kde4 login Finally although for me this is hypothetical, has anyone actually done any of this successfully? It is possible of course to do: mv /home/user1 /home/user1.old remove the user1 lines from passwd, group, shadow and gshadow and then do useradd user1 -c "Real Name" then rsync -av /home/user1.prev/directory_to-restore /home/user1/ for all the directories you wish to get back, but leaving any .kde related directories alone .... But this is tedious - hence my original question. Any advice appreciated for the transition of vital systems from F8 to F9 where KDE is involved. Thanks. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
