Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:11:04 -0700 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Dave Babb <dcbdbis@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cloning a user Message-ID: <64800696-2AB1-4B0E-9C17-D76AE07880BE@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <54206EFE.2020300@comcast.net> References: <54206EFE.2020300@comcast.net>
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On Sep 22, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Dave Babb <dcbdbis@comcast.net> 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, -- -Chuck
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