How can I duplicate a user?

Question

I have a small lab of Macs running Snow Leopard.
There is an existing user on each machine (Student) and I want to create a duplicate of that user (Student 2) on each machine using ARD.
I can see how to add a new user, but I'd like to duplicate the existing user with all the "bits and pieces" (dock icons, permissions, files, etc) of that user on each machine.
I can't find any way to do that with ARD... or at least I can't find any place that this operation is documented.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Ones you create the user you can copy the account from one user to another user
ie:
send unix command as root
ditto /Users/Student1 /Users/Student2
if you wanted to create the account and copy it, then you can do some thing like:
dscl / -create /Users/Student2 <--- must not conflict with another user
dscl / -create /Users/Student2 UserShell /bin/bash
dscl / -create /Users/Student2 RealName "Student2"
dscl / -create /Users/Student2 UniqueID "1015" <--- must not conflict with another user
dscl / -create /Users/Student2 PrimaryGroupID 80
dscl / -create /Users/Student2 NFSHomeDirectory /Users/Student2
dscl / -passwd /Users/Student2 SamePasswordAsStudent1
ditto /Users/Student1 /Users/Student2