If you want easy, just use Migration Assistant to copy over that one user. It knows all about doing the permissions correctly. Then define the user (if Migration Assistant hasn’t already) and you’ll get asked if you want to inherit the home folder that already exists with that name.
On Jan 9, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Kevin Callahan <kc...@mac.com> wrote: > I have a home folder for a user that I’d like to move onto an iMac running > Yosemite that currently does not host this user, but does host a few other > users. > > What’s the best way to do this so that the copied home folder has all the > correct permissions? > > Do I first create the user on Yosemite, then copy the home folder into the > /Users folder, then open the System Prefs and change the location of the > user’s home folder to the newly copied home folder? Or is there a simpler > and better way? > > Thanks, > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
