Re: Add new user with settings of existing user???

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From: Bill Unruh
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:25

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In <3BA27244.2A6C31B5@yahoo.com> morty <morty@yahoo.com> writes:

]Is it possible to add a new user and copy the Gnome, Netscape etc
]settings of an existing user to the new user in RH 7.1?

]What I am trying (unsucessfully) to achieve is to add 2 new users to the
]one computer but have all settings the same as the existing user.

]If you can add a new user and copy across settings is it then possible
]to have all settings updated to remain constant across all users.??

What settings? Surely it is up to the user what they want after you set
them up.
I have a directory, /usr/local/prototype, which contains all of the
.bashrc, .cshrc, etc files to start a user off. (Ie, I just all the
files in it over to the user's home directory)

YOu could also put in links so that one user's .bashrc say pointed to
the other user's file. Just make sure of the permissions.


]TIA

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