one profile for all users

guy_ripper · 12-12-2006, 07:21 AM

Hi,

I'm using fedora 6 for ldap server and workstation. My concern is if anyone knew on how to tweak or getting a standard desktop profile for all the clients who log into workstations. Let say this certain user (client1) has this desktop, panel, menus, icons and etc. then, a nother certain user (client2 will log to workstation would adopt the same settings from client1. However, of course only home folders are different.

Thanks....

homey · 12-12-2006, 08:07 AM

I setup user1's desktop and apps before creating any other users. Then, I copy user1's home folder to /etc/skel.

Code:

rm -rf /etc/skel
mkdir /etc/skel
rsync -av --exclude='.thunderbird' /home/fred/ /etc/skel

Berry Linux uses /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/xdesktop.sh to restore default settings to the desktop at each login and Knoppix uses a similar idea in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession. If you look at those, you might get some ideas.

guy_ripper · 12-16-2006, 09:49 AM

@homey, wow, that's great.. it works...

@homey does it work also using bash script? I want to automate all users profile and centralize into one. If new user will logon.. it will setup the profile without user knowledge. Is that possible? Thanks...