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.
Not just flakey but slow as all heck too. Laurie don't be so afraid of
the terminal it's really pretty easy to follow apples kb doc and do the
permissions fix.
Try it on some easy things. There are some really great sites with good
info on using the terminal as well.
Check out these tips... <http://osxfaq.com/tips/unix-tricks/>
Using the terminal to me (for some things) is like using a tightly
focused laser beam instead of a bat.
