Re: [K12OSN] OK now I am *very* confused!

[Matthew Tedder <teddemc yahoo com>]

You can copy (cp -R /home/generic /home/$NEWKID) and
change ownership (chown -R $NEWKID /home/$NEWKID) for
most applications--including all the basic desktop
stuff.

However--a few applications such as Mozilla will give
you a hard time.  They have files in the user home
that contain non-relative filesystem addressing in
them.  So, you should also run a script that scans
through all files, including within tarballs, to
replace /home/generic{.*} with /home/$NEWKID{$1}
(where {.*} is any text or no text and {$1} is
whatever {.*} was).

And, this script must do it recursively and inclusive
of hidden files.

That's all.  I no longer have our old script that did
this...because we just don't do that anymore.

BTW: Never ask if something can be done at all.  In
software, anything logically consistent can be
done...... Somethings are just more work than others.

Matthew

--- Joseph Bishay <joseph bishay utoronto ca> wrote:
> I don't understand how this is at all.  If k12ltsp
> is designed for 
> use in school environments, then it must be
> necessary to create 
> accounts for all the students.  
> 
> Now, given that everyone must have experience in
> creating these 
> accounts, is there anyone who can help me with my
> problem!  
> 
> I have set up a generic student with specific
> features, namely:
> - specific desktop background
> - removal of the evolution email icon in the taskbar
> at the bottom
> - removal of the 'start here' icon on the desktop
> - started up and changed the theme for mozilla to
> IE, as well as the 
> start homepage and removed some of the buttons from
> the menu area
> - started up OpenOffice, dealt with the address book
> and registration 
> dialogs
> - started up Gimp and dealt with all its setup
> dialogs.
> 
> So now I have the perfect generic student account.
> Is there any way 
> AT ALL to create new accounts based on that one? I
> have tried using 
> the adduser smith -m -k /home/generic command which
> runs 
> successfully, but once I attempt to log in as smith,
> it hangs.  I 
> tried modifying all the files and changing their
> permissions to 
> smith, and even tried changing all there permissions
> to EVERYONE 
> (777) and it still will not login correctly.  It
> just seems to freeze 
> on the gnome Metacity icon (but if you wait a REALLY
> LONG TIME ie: 10 
> minutes) you will get maybe 2 or more icons, until
> the screen blanks 
> to blue and you have to kill X)
> 
> Am I just thinking about this all wrong? Is everyone
> suppose to have 
> the same, default desktop?  Or is everyone out there
> actually logging 
> in as each student, modifying it, then logging out
> (which is what i 
> had to to do for all the staff who are obviously are
> a much more 
> manageable number).  
> 
> Indeed, as I was going through the archives, the
> most telling piece 
> of information I found was the comment that while
> the software is 
> robust and freely available, the learning curve will
> definitely 
> prevent widespread usage. Which is definitely too
> bad.  
> 
> Joseph
> 
> 
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