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Re: Teachers getting married



Kevin Halpin <email@hidden> on Thursday, March 31, 2005 at
1:52 PM +0000 wrote:
>My first suggestion would be to let them deal with it and change it next
>year. If they can't handle it then
Since we don't do anything to teacher accounts over the summer, changing
it now is the same as next year.
>
>
>Create the new "correct" user in wgm and point the home folder the correct
>location. 
>Delete the contents of the /new/ folder
>rm -r /path/to/newTeacherFolder/*
>
>ditto the contents of the old folder into the new one
>ditto -rsrc /path/to/oldTeacherFolder/ /path/to/newTeacherFolder/
>
>Correct privs
>chown -R teacherName teacherFolder
>
OK, I'm not a terminal person at all, so my question here is, how are
these commands any different from creating a new user, deleting all the
folders in the new home, copying the old folders into this new one and
setting the correct privileges?  Thanks for your help.

:)  Laurie

Laurie Yalem
Technology Coordinator
Churchill Center & School for Learning Disabilities
1035 Price School Lane
St. Louis, MO  63124
314-997-4343
email@hidden
www.churchillschool.org

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