Re: User admin question...

From: Trog Woolley (trog_at_email.fake)
Date: 01/31/04


Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:12:46 +0000 (UTC)

While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway rj_g@yahoo.com typed:
> 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.?

did you copy the .kde directory across?
The wallpaper, etc is set in $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc

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