Copying a user to a new user?
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 06:22:03 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 18:30 +1300, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> Hi, I want to creat a new user and copy all files from another users
> home into the new users home and have them be the new users files, how
> would I do this so things like old evolution mail and other files all
> work?
>
> Could I just temporarily copy them all to /etc/skel ?
That should work! That's how I did it in the BBS days, put all the
useful stuff for a new user there. Ric
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