{Solved} any way to recover deleted user

Hi,
I had comitted a terible mistake. I have deleted user with userdel (name) command and now I cannot access my home directory. Permission denied.
I can access it as root, so no problem, all the files are there. But, is there any way to recover the deleted user, so I can access my home directory as normal user? A help will be very much appreciated.
Last edited by piotr (2009-10-01 23:01:10)

Hi.
piotr wrote:It does not work. I get the message that the home directory already exists.
pass the -M option to useradd to avoid creating user home directory
pass the -u option to specify the user ID to use, look at this with ls -alln /home/ then you should see the uid number side to your old home dir

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