a few quick questions

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/9/1 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>

> 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).
>
> --
> derek
>
> Yes, of course, sorry for not thinking of that.

J.R.
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