Grant wrote: >I've been logging in as root and working completely from there, but >xscreensaver doesn't like that too much so I finally got around to >adding a user for myself to work from. I understand that's the smart >thing to do anyway. > >Is there a slick way to get all of my root user's "settings" applied >to my new user? I could copy the pertinent /root/* files, but I would >need to alter owner and group manually and then I'd feel like I'm >opening holes. > >Can anyone give me any advice on this? > >
Copying the directory is probably your best bet. I can't really think of any security holes that get opened up this way, if you chown everything. The commands you need are: <as root> (cd /root ; tar -cf - ./) | (cd ~me/; tar -xf -) chown -R me:users ~me -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
