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From: Mark Roach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 17:20
Subject: Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 04:41, Philipp Schulte wrote:
Hello,
lets say I have a few users (not all of them
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 04:41, Philipp Schulte wrote:
Hello,
lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux
experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts.
By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme, menues,
MUA-settings, browser-settings,
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 09:41 GMT, Philipp Schulte penned:
I would like to create a role-account, configure everything for this
account and copy all those settings everytime a new user is created.
I know about /etc/skel but I am not sure if it's possible to use
Brad Sims wrote:
On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any
pointers.
Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2, .vimrc, .bashrc.
Doesn't work. It's not just the owner of a file, it's
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:04:36PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
Brad Sims wrote:
On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any
pointers.
Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2,
Nunya wrote:
FWIW this approach works perfectly for me.
I cp -rL my dotfiles as root, chown root, chmod a+r them.
When I reimage, I cp them as my account. This fixes the owner.
I think they still end up world-readable, but you can fix that.
I do it for these files:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
Nunya wrote:
I don't get it. You are talking about copying the files. This of
course is not a problem, but what do you do if you have to change the
content of hundreds of files for each user?
Phil
The point is, to the degree
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:09:35AM -0800, Nunya wrote:
The point is, to the degree you want the users to have identical
settings, you don't, for big things like kde and gnome. They (luckily)
don't have the username embeded in them.
Correction, this statement is wrong. I guess you either
On Sunday 14 December 2003 08:49 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
Nunya wrote:
I do it for these files:
desk:/mnt/apt/inst/dotfiles# ls
dot.fetchmailrc dot.gnome dot.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
dot.procmailrcdot.xsession
dot.fluxbox dot.gnome2 dot.gtkrc-2.0
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:41:34AM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hello,
lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux
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experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts.
By profile I mean things like desktop-icons,
Hello,
lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux
experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts.
By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme, menues,
MUA-settings, browser-settings, printer ...
The users will most likely either use KDE
On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any
pointers.
Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2, .vimrc, .bashrc.
Thats what I did when moving disks g
--
Assumption is the mother of all
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 09:41 GMT, Philipp Schulte penned:
Hello, lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior
GNU/Linux experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their
accounts. By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme,
menues, MUA-settings,
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