useradd instead of adduser,

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Published on 2014-06-11T21:26:49Z Indexed on 2014/06/11 21:40 UTC
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So I installed Ubuntu 13.04, set up sftp, that's all good. Setting up vsftpd for regular FTP users (we need those too, sadly. sftp isn't for good for all our purposes), i accidently used useradd to create one of the users instead of adduser.

This user can't log in to frig all.

I tried to delete the user and re-add it with adduser, no dice. It creates the user, but the permissions are frigged up.

Any idea how I can completely undo a useradd, so that I can adduser this person and have everything coming up Milhouse again?

Sorry boys, I frigged up hard.

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