On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 14:14 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Samstag, 30. Juli 2011 schrieb Sthu Deus: > > Thank You for Your time and answer, Hans: > > >Create a default user and configure it to your needs. Then copy > > >everything of your settings to /etc/skel. When a new user is created, > > >everything from /etc/skel will be transferred to the new user profile. > > > > So I have done and found a problem w/ several links to /tmp dir > > having the username in its linking > > > > and > > > > some session information that is > > stored in a dir. and files of user KDE config.s. > > > > What to do w/ this? > Hmm, I never tested this, but when yoiu create a new user, all files from > /etc/skel should be transferred to the new user's /home. Of course all fils > must be owned by the user. At first login there are indeed some files created > in > /tmp. Reboot is clearing this stuff, but a script should do it as well. > > Please do not just simply copy the files to of the "master"-user to > /etc/skel, > I suggest to use rsync for that. With rsync you are also able to transfer > symlinks. > > You can also try another way: Create a default user and configure it to yoiur > needs. Then tar the /home of this user and after creating the new users you > can untar the files in his /home and change owner by a script. This way you > have also the advantage, to create very personal profiles. <snip> I think that's the hard way. Using KIOSK is probably easier and more consistent (e.g., KDE does not normally read all the bash profile/rc scripts). Alas, I'm flat out today through Monday so I don't think I'll have time to answer the previous question about how we do it until some time next week - John
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