Transferring user settings

lordrayden75 · 09-01-2008, 01:56 PM

Hi, I'd like to know how can I create a new user on my machine, but to transfer there all my settings e.g. font configuration, appearance, firefox configuration, groups that I belong to etc. except of course m y files

I installed Kubuntu 8.04 and I spent some time configuring these for me, so I don't want to go through that again.
So in fact I want to clone this user and make another based on this.

Tnx

arizonagroovejet · 09-01-2008, 04:42 PM

They'll probably be some GUI tool for creating new users but I don't know what it is in debian. The command line method is with useradd command

Groups you belong to are defined in /etc/group so you'll need to look at that and modify as appropriate.

If you want to copy all your config settings then the easiest way is once you've created the new user, become root, change in to the new user's home directory then do

Code:

$ cp -r /home/oldusercode/.[a-zA-Z0-9]* .
$ chown -R newusercode .*

cp copies file, chown sets ownership.

lordrayden75 · 09-02-2008, 10:17 AM

I did it, tnx. Wasn't looking for a gui tool, but it seems i should learn more about linux system folders