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My wife's PC, running CentOS 6, suddenly quit connecting to the Net. Autodidact that I am, I fumbled with all the hard- and software I could find or dared try, but did no good. So we lugged it down to our favorite shop. While there, she bought a laptop, and asked them to install CentOS and copy all her files from the PC (including two books she's written and is trying to market).

...rname & > password, or just use their default dummies. I chose the dummies -- and > realized in the night that I've never changed a username before. Try this: do a useradd for her, and perhaps for you. Then, as root, move the files to her home directory, and then chown -R herusername:hergroup ~herhome/* > *THEN* userdel the dummy accounts. That way, just in case they installed something you don't want (incl. malware), will be disabled. Then you can poke around in the dummy home, etc, and when you don't find anything you want, *then* rm -rf ~dummy <snip> mark