Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:18:36 -0600 From: Dave Babb <dcbdbis@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning a user Message-ID: <5420760C.5000901@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <64800696-2AB1-4B0E-9C17-D76AE07880BE@mac.com> References: <54206EFE.2020300@comcast.net> <64800696-2AB1-4B0E-9C17-D76AE07880BE@mac.com>
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Thank you for the information. I also want to clone the MATE configuration and the desktop settings.........Just not the email settings. Thanks! Dave On 09/22/14 13:11, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Sep 22, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Dave Babb <dcbdbis@comcast.net> wrote: >> I am setting up a new system for a municipality. I want to setup one user's home dir, their desktop, .profile, dir tree, etc....then clone it to all the other users I need to setup. email is not a part of this cloning process. I am trying to avoid the labor setting up each user's desktop individually..... > Utilities like pw and useradd will support -m and -k flags to create the user's home dir from a template or "skeleton", usually /etc/skel, /usr/share/skel, or similar. Set that directory up to contain whatever files or subdirectories you'd like each new user to have by default. > > Regards,
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