There is probably special vocabulary for what I want to do, maybe even a routine for doing it (if I'm lucky) -- but I have no idea how to look for either. My apologies! Let me expatiate a little. We have a laptop which neither of us often uses; and a new local ISP with new hardware, which (when set to) enables the laptop to connect wirelessly in the guest room. It will be much more convenient for any house guests who may need to get online while they're here than in the past. (Getting an ethernet cable to the guest room would be a royal pain.) Several of our regulars do in fact usually need at least to check their email once or twice while here. So I'm starting to create user accounts on the laptop. When a given guest is not here, I just set that user's shell to /sbin/nologin -- in addition to shutting the laptop clear down, and turning off wireless access entirely. IOW, the setup ought to be pretty safe -- safe enough to leave each account in existence, ready for the next visit. But very few of our visitors know any linux at all -- most, likely enough, have never even seen it. They'll need to have things explained from time to time, and maybe unsnarled. What I therefore want to do is give each new account a desktop -- size and location of panels, and of launchers on panels a/o in drawers, that kind of thing -- just like the one I use, at least at first. Given that I do have my own account on the laptop, and that I have it set up just as I do on my usual PCs, is there a safe and reasonably easy way to carry it over to each new user account as I create them? Preferably one that I can use as root, without having to log into each account, or even know its password? (They'll each set their own, the first time they visit.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
