Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

[Philipp Schulte <pschulte@uni-duisburg.de>]

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/apt/inst/dotfiles# ls
> dot.fetchmailrc  dot.gnome           dot.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2  
> dot.procmailrc    dot.xsession
> dot.fluxbox      dot.gnome2          dot.gtkrc-2.0         dot.profile
> dot.gbuffyrc     dot.gnome2_private  dot.kde               dot.qt
> dot.gconf        dot.grun_history    dot.kderc             dot.xmms
> dot.gconfd       dot.gtkrc           dot.muttrc            
> dot.xscreensaver

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