Thursby has developed an application that may help you with this.
If anyone is interested, I would be happy to make it available for your use.
Just send me an e-mail.
The software has three main funcitons (with both a graphical interface, and
command line interface):
▪ Moving or Copying a User's Home Folder to a Different Location
▪ Making a Copy of a User's Home Folder For Use By a Different User
▪ Moving or Copying Any Folder to a New Location, and changing the
owner of the files moved or copied.
In Laurie's case, if a new user account was created, one would use the
second option (making a copy for use by a different user).
This is a security factored app with the GUI running with regular privileges
launching the command line tool as root. Help is built in.
I would love to get some feedback on this!
Paul Nelson
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> From: Laurie Yalem <email@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:30:46 -0600
> To: Kevin Halpin <email@hidden>
> Cc: client-management <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Teachers getting married
>
> Kevin Halpin <email@hidden> on Monday, April 4, 2005 at
> 11:30 AM +0000 wrote:
>>>> 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,
>>
>> first and foremost you don't need to log into the rig as root. Second
>> changing permissions in the Finder is flakey (even Apple recommends you
>> use
>> chown, see kbase artnum 106824 for something similar). Besides that they
>> perform the same functions.
>
> OK- since I'm not all that comfortable in terminal, let me ask you some
> quesitons.
>
> After I do rm -r, can I then drag the new teacher folder to the terminal
> window instead of typing in the path? Also, is that a space after the rm?
>> rm -r /path/to/newTeacherFolder/*
>
> Again, after I type ditto -rsrc, can I drag and drop the old folder and
> new folders? If so, would there be a / between them?
>> ditto -rsrc /path/to/oldTeacherFolder/ /path/to/newTeacherFolder/
>
> Give me a little more info on the chown -R. Exactly how do I do that, I
> know how to change the privelegs manually, but I would want to make sure
> that I get them correct for each folder. Thanks for your help. I need
> terminal directions to be pretty literal, or else I'm afraid I'll screw it
> up!
>
> :) 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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