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Idea
#10312: Offer to create users who exist in /home but not in the system
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Written by pyrates the 26 Jun 08 at 02:43.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
During a system installation, if you preserve your home directory, the system should detect there is already existing users in there and offer to create those users automatically through the usual method that it normally does if the user doesn't exist in the system yet.
This would make moving/restoring a home directory from one system to another so useful then. Even better would be that you can import a /home directory from another system and then be offered to import the users that are in that home directory. This way if you're moving from one system to another, it would make it so easy. It would be very mac like if you ask me.
To help make sure you're not using someone's home directory from another distro, a simple config file that indicates what distro it was used in last would be appropriate. We could start with ubuntu and the version number in there. This way all Ubuntu has to check is that file and what distro it was created in or used last in. If it's a supported distro and there isn't problems with it, then offer to create a new user to match that home directory.
It could also check for all the .config files in the users home directory to see if it can import them into the users new home directory. If any .config files exist that it doesn't recognize, it doesn't copy them in.
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brettalton wrote on the 29 Jun 08 at 18:52
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I had one HELL of a time fixing a system I installed overtop of / using user 'kayla' when the user had it spelt 'kaliegh'. Since 'kayla' was set as the default admin (for sudo) and there was no GUI to make kaliegh a sudo user, I had to wipe from scratch and try again.
No matter how much that was my fault, it would be a useful function.
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coolaj86 wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 21:13
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++ very useful. I'd like it.
Thought: A lot of people complain about slow load times for gnome. My experience has shown me that logging in with a new user solves this problem. What incompatible ~/.SOME_CONFIG files and dirs are attributing to this and could it be cleanly dealt with?
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crazybilly wrote on the 10 Jul 08 at 14:43
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That's the major problem I've run into, coolaj--if you preserve a users' home dir across distros or even versions of Ubuntu (at times), you can run into some SERIOUS problems (permissions and configurations).
That said, I think something like an 'you already have such-and-such configured. would you like to preserve your current config?' dialog would be really helpful along these lines.
there's probably a better way to do that, but that gets the idea across...
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tommynz1975 wrote on the 28 Aug 08 at 23:18
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sounds great.... have under admin menu .. import/export user.
this way a set of standalone computers could have /home(s) exported to a home / business server with passwords file history etc intact.
The options would then be do you the Admin moving the /home(s) want each user to retain their privlages
Combine this for system backups
sharing out to the server as a sudoer for admin tasks on each computer in the network....
I have not done this yet so I dont know how easy a task it is.
*** please just dont vote on an idea, please improve that idea ***
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