a few quick questions

[Derek Broughton]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

> 2008/8/29 Zhengguo Xu <tworiversfolk at gmail.com>
> 
>>
>> 3. i set up a user account for my wife as well but i was tired to do all
>> the setting again. is there anything i can do to simplify it? (i mean, i
>> customized all menubar, compiz ... and i'd like somehow "transfer" this
>> setting for my wife)
>>
> I am not sure if this is recommended, but if you didn't create anything
> personal yet, yo should be able to copy everything in you home folder to
> her account, especially every file and folder with a name starting with a
> dot, such as .bashrc, .gnome and whatever. The easiest way to do this
> should be opening a terminal and type something like:
> sudo cp -r /home/<your user name>/* /home/<her user name>/
> but WAIT to do this until someone else writes here and confirm or deny
> this. I'm kind of a beginner myself, you know.

The biggest issue is that the files are now owned by root :-(  Following the
cp, do "sudo chown $HER.$HER -R /home/$HER" (where $HER is her user name).

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derek