Composing Home Directory

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I have the same settings for a local user to put on several machines. I composed my user "usstudent" What is the best way to send this out? Should I send out the account first via remote and then the home folder? I fill user templates on this?

Thank you in advance!

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milesleacy
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Kathie,

If you use the Fill User Template feature on your packages to populate all of the data you'd like to have in your local account, then you won't need to distribute a home folder.

If you have user data other than what gets distributed by your normal packages, you can package a home folder, but you'll want to be sure to address ownership and permissions, either in Composer when you build the package or with an After or At Reboot script.

I hope this helps...

Thanks,

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