[Bug 48630] Re: Admin user confusion with user directory exists by different ID

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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Title:
  Admin user confusion with user directory exists by different ID

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The Dapper installer asks for an admin user name.  That's fine.  I put
  in the same user name I have always used, which had a directory in my
  /home partition.

  My first login was a disaster.

  The reason was, the user ID was previously 500, but the installer
  arbitrarily chose the new UID to be 1000.  So the admin user couldn't
  access its home directory.

  I propose that the installer look in the /home directory to see if
  there's a directory corresponding to the admin user name provided, and
  do something right when there's a conflict

  Some possibilities:

  - just take the UID of the existing directory
  - change the UID of the existing directory and all its files
  - ask the user to resolve the conflict

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