[CoLoCo] can't add user - path exists

[David L. Willson]

> 2. Different distros (not the case with Ubuntu) may assign different
> uid/gid ownership to /home/jim, and you would need to reset the
> ownership.

If you stay with the same distro, accounts will have dependable UIDs by the order of
their creation.

Examples:  The first user account on an Ubuntu box will have UID (and GID) 1000, the
second user account will have 1001, the third 1002, etc.  On Fedora and SUSE, the first
account gets 500 and subsequent accounts are incremented by 1.

Still, the best practice is to immediately and recursively "donate" the recycled
home-folder to it's owner with 'sudo chown -R jim.jim ~jim' or equivalent.

David L. Willson
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