Isn't there a bigger issue with copying home folders - what happens to
things like items in the finder window sidebar, desktop picture, items in
the dock, etc?
It seems like just copying stuff leaves the user to clean up these items,
something they may not know how to do.
Paul
> From: "Postman, Hillary" <email@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 07:37:17 -0700
> To: 'client-management' <email@hidden>
> Subject: RE: Teachers getting married
>
> If you use XPrivileges, which is a nice tool that comes with Passenger...you
> can set the ownership recursively to all users in a directory...so after you
> create a new user, just change her home directory to the new name and run. I
> run it pretty often as rights seem to get messed up on a regular basis.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Halpin [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 12:07 PM
> To: Josh Wisenbaker; Laurie Yalem
> Cc: client-management
> Subject: Re: Teachers getting married
>
>
> On 4/4/05 11:46 AM, "Josh Wisenbaker" <email@hidden> wrote
>>
>> On Apr 4, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Laurie Yalem wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>
> you can man rm for a ton of info. Specifically you can drag folders and
> there is a space.
>>>
>>>> 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?
>
> Yes you need a space.
>>>
>>>> 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!
>
> man chown. chown -R userName userFolder is saying recursively change
> ownership of userFolder to userName
>>>
>>> :) Laurie
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hmmmm... how about just change the names on the user account and
>> update the home folder and group memberships to match?
>>
>> (Page 117 of the OD Admin guide for shortname changes.)
>>
>> Or at worst, create a new user then rename and chown the existing home
>> to match.
>>
> Just a personal pref. I'm more comfortable in the terminal than using the
> Inspector.
>
> Good idea, Josh.
> Create the new user name and don't click create home now.
> mv unmarriedFolder marriedFolder
> then chown.
>
> Kevin
> mac-fusion
>
>
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