Re: Default User Desktop

From: Ivan Marsh (annoyed_at_you.now)
Date: 05/06/05 

Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 12:36:14 -0500

On Thu, 05 May 2005 19:13:11 -0400, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

> On Thu, 05 May 2005 12:11:28 -0500, James Blair wrote:
>
>> James Blair wrote:
>>> Hi all. I'm relatively new to administrating Linux, and I'm wondering
>>> in FC3 how I would go about setting up the default desktop for new
>>> user accounts so that my new users will automatically have a group of
>>> launcher files and links on their desktop. Any thoughts on how best to
>>> do this?
>>>
>>> Sorry should have specified: I'm currrently use the Gnome desktop.
>
> If you want to clone a Gnome set up just cp -R the .gnome* directories
> to the new user's directory and then do a chown and chgrp on them.

I've never done anything like this before so correct me if I'm wrong (as I
know you all will) but isn't that what the /etc/skel directory is for?

I thought if you put something in /etc/skel it would get copied out to
the users home directory when a new user is created. 

-- 
Life is short, but wide. -KV

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