copying settings from one user to another

[Christoph Kukulies <kuku gilberto physik rwth-aachen de>]

I have a larger number of users for whom I want to duplicate the settings
of one master user, once everything is established.

Since there seem to be several user specific entries in the .dot files
I started already to write a shell script that edits the .gnome...
stuff appropriately but somehow it is dissatisfying. 

Is there a more elegant way to do this?

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku gil physik rwth-aachen de