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[Cameron Patrick]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 05:13:25PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:

| Those two alone would make it /vastly/ easier to make sensible default 
| setups for things like Mozilla and OpenOffice, and reduce the amount of 
| time wasted setting up apps for each user considerably. No more setup 
| dialogs, the app 'just works' the first time it's launched, because 
| configuration has been done in a global config file.

Have you seen this?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2003/debian-openoffice-200309/msg00039.html

It's apparently undocumented and not /quite/ what you were after but may
be a good starting point.

Another crude hack^W^W approach would be to copy config files across and
hack around any hard-coded references to usernames and homedirs using sed...

Cameron.