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Creating user account & pasting files in Desktop remotely?

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I need to create a separate user account in all the systems. And I have to paste a few files in their desktop. I have created a separate user account with a password remotely. However, when I type ls /home/username only examples.desktop file is shown there. There is no Desktop, Music, Videos, Documents Folder etc. I know after logging in to that account physically the system creates a folder for new users automatically. But is there any other way to achieve this? I need to create a user account for more than 200 systems.

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Accessing the system via SSH.

Yes, the user account must have a password.

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answered 3 Years ago quivedge · Accepted Answer

Consider this an answer-in-progress, since more details are necessary on how you are adding users, whether it's the same username, etc.

Assuming you are creating a user with the same name and the same Desktop contents on each of the 200 systems, you need to do the following:

Pack the custom "Desktop" contents into a tarball, and upload it somewhere. Example:
- Suppose the Desktop folder and other custom home contents are in /home/karthick/custom-folders
- Archive with cd ~/custom-folders && tar -cvzf ../customfiles.tar.gz .
- Upload customfiles.tar.gz to e.g. some HTTP server, say http://personal.karthick.com/

Here's the outline of the script to run on the target system to create the user with the custom folder:



sudo useradd --create-home customuser

cd /home/customuser

wget -O- http://personal.karthick.com/customfiles.tar.gz | tar -xz

sudo chown -R customuser:customuser *

More information that would be helpful to improve the answer:

Are you setting a password for this user? Will it be the same user?

How are you accessing the remote systems - SSH?