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From: "Mark Roach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 17:20
Subject: Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user
> On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 04:41, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > Hello,
> > le
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 04:41, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> Hello,
> lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux
> experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts.
> By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme, menues,
> MUA-settings, browser-setti
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:41:34AM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello,
> lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux
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> experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts.
> By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, des
On Sunday 14 December 2003 08:49 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> Nunya wrote:
> > I do it for these files:
> >
> > desk:/mnt/apt/inst/dotfiles# ls
> > dot.fetchmailrc dot.gnome dot.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
> > dot.procmailrcdot.xsession
> > dot.fluxbox dot.gnome2 dot.gtkrc-2.0
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:09:35AM -0800, Nunya wrote:
> The point is, to the degree you want the users to have identical
> settings, you don't, for big things like kde and gnome. They (luckily)
> don't have the username embeded in them.
Correction, this statement is wrong. I guess you either
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> Nunya wrote:
>
> I don't get it. You are talking about copying the files. This of
> course is not a problem, but what do you do if you have to change the
> content of hundreds of files for each user?
> Phil
The point is, to the d
Nunya wrote:
> FWIW this approach works perfectly for me.
> I cp -rL my dotfiles as root, chown root, chmod a+r them.
> When I reimage, I cp them as my account. This fixes the owner.
> I think they still end up world-readable, but you can fix that.
>
> I do it for these files:
>
> desk:/mnt/ap
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:04:36PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> Brad Sims wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > > I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any
> > > pointers.
> >
> > Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gno
Brad Sims wrote:
> On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any
> > pointers.
>
> Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2, .vimrc, .bashrc.
Doesn't work. It's not just the owner of a file,
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 u
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 09:41 GMT, Philipp Schulte penned:
> Hello, lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior
> GNU/Linux experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their
> accounts. By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme,
> menues, MUA-settings, browser-
On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any
> pointers.
Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2, .vimrc, .bashrc.
Thats what I did when moving disks
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Hello,
lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux
experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts.
By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme, menues,
MUA-settings, browser-settings, printer ...
The users will most likely either use KDE or
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