Am 16.04.2013 21:52, schrieb William Mattison:
> The language for a user account was set to simplified Chinese.  Not what was 
> wanted!  So I thought I could just delete the account and re-create it.  I 
> used the Users and Groups GUI to delete the user account.  I did check that 
> the home directory for that account was gone.  Then I re-created the account 
> with Users and Groups.  When the user first tried to log in, everything was 
> in simplified Chinese!  I re-tried all this with an added reboot between 
> deleting and re-creating the account.  It was still simplified Chinese.  All 
> other user accounts are English.  Where is the language preference for that 
> one user account "remembered" even after the account is deleted, and how do I 
> clear it?  No one here knows enough simplified Chinese to read/understand the 
> simplified Chinese menu entries, buttons, prompts, messages, application icon 
> labels, etc.  Or how can I as root reset that account's preferences back to 
> default without becoming that user?

[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ userdel --help
Usage: userdel [options] LOGIN
Options:
  -f, --force                   force removal of files,
                                even if not owned by user
  -h, --help                    display this help message and exit
  -r, --remove                  remove home directory and mail spool
  -R, --root CHROOT_DIR         directory to chroot into
  -Z, --selinux-user            remove any SELinux user mapping for the user

and no, there is for sure NOTHING outside the userhome
type "ls -lha -R /etc/skel/" and look what is there
this folder contains anything which a new user get's as environment

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