On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 09:21 -0700, alan wrote: > An easier way is to just tar all the files in the one home directory, > su to the new user account and untar the file into the new home > directory. Why would that be easier than populating the skel directory? You'd have to go through these shenanigans each time you created a new user. Using skel does that automatically for you. -- (Currently running FC4, but testing FC5, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.