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#1 2008-10-05 11:14:36

miggols99
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Registered: 2007-06-10
Posts: 424

System wide default configuration files?

I have six people using the computer, and I don't want to have to configure starting Wicd in the tray for each user or font configuration...

Is there a way to set up configuration files for new users like Ubuntu and all of the other "tweaked" distros do?

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#2 2008-10-05 16:21:19

carlocci
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From: Padova - Italy
Registered: 2008-02-12
Posts: 368

Re: System wide default configuration files?

/etc/skel contains the default home directory for new users, you could fiddle with config files there

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#3 2008-10-05 17:00:11

miggols99
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Registered: 2007-06-10
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Re: System wide default configuration files?

Ok cool. So could I configure my user and copy the config files there? Would that work ok?

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#4 2008-10-05 18:11:03

Profjim
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From: NYC
Registered: 2008-03-24
Posts: 658

Re: System wide default configuration files?

Doesn't matter where you copy the config files from, so long as they're valid and do what you want.

Whether configuring your user will give you ~/.config files that do what you want depends. For example, if there's an existing /etc/foo_config file, and you set up your ~/.foo_config file in a way that (whether you realize it or not) depends on the stuff in /etc/foo_config being the system default, and then you copy your ~/.foo_config file to /etc/foo_config (overwriting the old file), then no, it won't work. If you avoid mistakes like that, and end up with ~/.foo_config files that all on their own do what you want, then sure, it will work. (Just check their permissions after you copy them to /etc.)

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