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 this > > because some paths are absolute in configuration files. > > Just curious -- what do you mean by this? Even if the default files in > there have absolute paths, you could just edit them ...
Sure I could edit them, but that's not the point. It would be a nightmare to administer if you have to support many users and many different applications. Just for example: $ grep -r phil .g* | wc -l 489 ".g*" catches most of the gnome-application's files. And that's just a part of it. No OpenOffcie, no Firebird, no Thunderbird yet. And what if some app chooses to put it's config in some kind of DB and not a plain-text file? No, this can't be the way. Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
