[K12OSN] OK now I am *very* confused!

["Joseph Bishay" <joseph bishay utoronto ca>]

I don't understand how this is at all.  If k12ltsp is designed for 
use in school environments, then it must be necessary to create 
accounts for all the students.  

Now, given that everyone must have experience in creating these 
accounts, is there anyone who can help me with my problem!  

I have set up a generic student with specific features, namely:
- specific desktop background
- removal of the evolution email icon in the taskbar at the bottom
- removal of the 'start here' icon on the desktop
- started up and changed the theme for mozilla to IE, as well as the 
start homepage and removed some of the buttons from the menu area
- started up OpenOffice, dealt with the address book and registration 
dialogs
- started up Gimp and dealt with all its setup dialogs.

So now I have the perfect generic student account. Is there any way 
AT ALL to create new accounts based on that one? I have tried using 
the adduser smith -m -k /home/generic command which runs 
successfully, but once I attempt to log in as smith, it hangs.  I 
tried modifying all the files and changing their permissions to 
smith, and even tried changing all there permissions to EVERYONE 
(777) and it still will not login correctly.  It just seems to freeze 
on the gnome Metacity icon (but if you wait a REALLY LONG TIME ie: 10 
minutes) you will get maybe 2 or more icons, until the screen blanks 
to blue and you have to kill X)

Am I just thinking about this all wrong? Is everyone suppose to have 
the same, default desktop?  Or is everyone out there actually logging 
in as each student, modifying it, then logging out (which is what i 
had to to do for all the staff who are obviously are a much more 
manageable number).  

Indeed, as I was going through the archives, the most telling piece 
of information I found was the comment that while the software is 
robust and freely available, the learning curve will definitely 
prevent widespread usage. Which is definitely too bad.  

Joseph