From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 19:18:43 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46A3DA6D for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [IPv6:2001:558:fe14:43:76:96:62:16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E804E9DC for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.35]) by qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id uJuN1o0030ldTLk51KJhWy; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:18:41 +0000 Received: from Curly-Sr.dbis.net ([50.183.226.175]) by omta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id uKJg1o00X3nhSLa01KJhk1; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:18:41 +0000 Message-ID: <5420760C.5000901@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:18:36 -0600 From: Dave Babb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning a user References: <54206EFE.2020300@comcast.net> <64800696-2AB1-4B0E-9C17-D76AE07880BE@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <64800696-2AB1-4B0E-9C17-D76AE07880BE@mac.com> DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20140121; t=1411413521; bh=orifqAInVeusLl4vtggjh7kalNkakCLuHD6T9ulDhjU=; h=Received:Received:Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject: Content-Type; b=L+XB9Mdp/Ird0bjRLUirBkj4Vu2MBw+f0BAXTe5FXmpoz1WEQEBFBfyOfhepk+zzV zhPO5oHv7L1dPae6NC/SjyrwP+hT6WfTBD6Dj0dVup9pHXQDnoPNqUjOrolmN0zmev yFG/ovbR9vsCWpSj/DUJUqQEe0rxL8nMoUKQ79S6dIqwAr3mI6u83w2k3h7GqEfU4Z BNxSD3+Edm0sQJ+ZXfEgEM0S6Jz8apZfLQAhWEHaHQAef12OddZiVmk2VOrf7YdIru rnq/hIjigjAZCMmTDWtwxDgRidzgGHI4gHeK1xOKoTvQqL453LujrUDxIAaJ7PFMH2 FaQpS6HPUzbgw== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:18:43 -0000 Thank you for the information. I also want to clone the MATE configuration and the desktop settings.........Just not the email settings. Thanks! Dave On 09/22/14 13:11, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Sep 22, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Dave Babb wrote: >> I am setting up a new system for a municipality. I want to setup one user's home dir, their desktop, .profile, dir tree, etc....then clone it to all the other users I need to setup. email is not a part of this cloning process. I am trying to avoid the labor setting up each user's desktop individually..... > Utilities like pw and useradd will support -m and -k flags to create the user's home dir from a template or "skeleton", usually /etc/skel, /usr/share/skel, or similar. Set that directory up to contain whatever files or subdirectories you'd like each new user to have by default. > > Regards,