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Create a new user account by duplicating an existing one?
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<blockquote data-quote="terrapin54" data-source="post: 1536339" data-attributes="member: 227533"><p>So what I ended up doing is:</p><p></p><p>Enable and login to root account</p><p></p><p>In root terminal: </p><p></p><p>cp -R /Users/current_user_home /Users/new_user_name</p><p>chown -RP new_user_name:staff /Users/new_user_name</p><p></p><p>In Settings > Users and Groups create new user account with new_user_name</p><p>Accept warning that a home directory already exists for this user</p><p></p><p>Reboot and login to new user account</p><p></p><p>Worked perfect. New user account is an exact replica of existing user account but with a new username.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="terrapin54, post: 1536339, member: 227533"] So what I ended up doing is: Enable and login to root account In root terminal: cp -R /Users/current_user_home /Users/new_user_name chown -RP new_user_name:staff /Users/new_user_name In Settings > Users and Groups create new user account with new_user_name Accept warning that a home directory already exists for this user Reboot and login to new user account Worked perfect. New user account is an exact replica of existing user account but with a new username. [/QUOTE]
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