Re: User admin question...
From: Harry Phillips (harry_at_hkjsfh.com)
Date: 01/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:43:36 +1000
R.J.G. wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I hope you can help with this...
>
> I want to be able to copy one users directorys and prefs over to another
> user. So, supposing, I need to add user "alice", I can useradd, and all
> that and create /home/alice. Now, I want alice to have copies of bob's
> files and prefs, so I cp /home/bob/* /home/alice and that all works fine.
> But when alice signs in (after permissions, groups, etc. have been updated
> by root), her kde desktop looks like bob's except for wall paper and the
> panel configuration.
>
> So, my question... what am I missing? How do I copy to alice, bob's prefs
> for wallpaper, kde panel layout, etc.?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> --r.j.
>
First of all I use webmin to do all this type of adminstration. It has a
setting of which directory to use as a skeleton. Change that to
/home/bob and it will take care of everything else.
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Regards,
Harry Phillips
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