On 4/4/05 6:51 AM, "Laurie Yalem" <email@hidden> 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.
Kevin
mac-fusion
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