[X4U] Copying User Accounts

[lj Palmer]

This is an Shell file that I've used in terminal to create new accounts 
on a machine remotely. You could use it then copy the User folders from 
the other machines. ( This worked for Panther but my Tiger is still in 
route.)
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#/bin/sh
sudo nicl / -create /users/grey uid 501
sudo nicl / -create /users/grey gid 20
sudo nicl / -create /users/grey shell /bin/bash
sudo nicl / -create /users/grey home /Users/lj
sudo nicl / -create /users/grey realname "..lj"
sudo nicl / -create /users/grey passwd	\*

sudo ditto /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj /Users/lj
#copy your files here or modify previous line
sudo chown -R lj:staff /Users/lj
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..lj

On May 6, 2005, at 13:16, P. H. Adams wrote:

> Looking for a bit of advice here. Been having some problems with the 
> HD on my iMac that I think a good reformatting may cure (file system 
> corruption; did a surface scan and it came out good). I used my PB to 
> put a fresh install of Tiger on an external FW drive and used that to 
> boot the iMac from. It all looks good, but now I want to get my data 
> off the iMac drive and onto the external. Ideally, what I'd like to do 
> is clone the user accounts to the external so that, in case something 
> goes awry with the reformatting, I have all my user accounts available 
> on the FW drive. I'm unsure of how to get the fresh OS to recognize 
> the 3 user accounts, though. I could just create new accounts and copy 
> the data,  but is there anyway to just copy them over intact? Also, 
> once I get the drive reformatted and everything reinstalled, I'll need 
> to copy them back over to the iMac drive. I may just be able to use 
> CCC for this, and copy the whole kit and kaboodle. Anyone have any 
> advice for the best way to proceed? Thanks much!
>
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