Cloning a user

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Sep 22 19:07:17 UTC 2014


Dave Babb <dcbdbis at comcast.net> writes:

> 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.....
[...]
> May I ask for pointers please?

useradd(8)? 

Possibly with a custom configuration file and/or dotfile directory?


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list