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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

In article <9nu3ks$5tq$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>, Bill Unruh wrote:
> 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)

Even better than that is to put the files into /etc/skel where the
adduer program copies the "skeletal" (default) files from.  The only
thing that I am not sure of is that this could be just a Debian thing
but I doubt it.

I do know one Debian specific thing is that you can customise the
location of the skeletal files in /etc/adduser.conf.  I often make
copies and customiset his file for different groups of users and then
run adduser with the --conf option.

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Jeremy Lunn
Melbourne, Australia