Keep Mighty Mouse setting for all network users.

Question

We have intel macs at my school, running parallels for Win XP.
The mouse needs to be set up per user to allow the right click function on the windows side, users do not like using the ctrlshiftclick method.
Is there a way I can set up so that all users who have the mighty mouse has the right click function enabled as the secondary action? I dont have time to log in as each user to set it up.
The users also use PPC eMac, those do not have the fancy mouse, just the standard one.
So far i have tried to copy the mouse preferences: com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist. But it does not want to copy to all the users using:
cp -R /Volumes/docs/Mouse\ Prefs/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist /Volumes/docs/students///Library/Preferences/
Some reason it does not copy the file.
Any ideas? Is it the right file?
-Jeff

Answer 1

cp -R /Volumes/docs/Mouse\ Prefs/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist /Volumes/docs/students///Library/Preferences/
The shell will parse this command by first expanding the "*" to every directory under .../students. It then executes that command - not what you want.
You probably want something like this...
cd /Volumes/docs/students
for dir in * do ; cp /path/to/plist $dir/path/to/PrefsDir ; done
This first expands the "*" to all items in students dir. It then executes the part after the "do ;" for each item in the list, setting the variable "dir" to the first one, then second, etc. The "$dir" gets replaced by the value of "dir".
Note that this will not handle any directory names in /students which have spaces in them (because the 'for' treats spaces as argument separators). if this applies, then changes will have to be made.
Before running it on everything, test run using only one student using...
for dir in chosenName do ; cp /path/to/plist $dir/path/to/PrefsDir ; done
Ths will set 'dir' to 'chosenName' and execute the following bit for that value only (just to ensure it puts what you want, where you want it .
Note also that your "-R" option is ignored - this only applies to the copy source if it is a directory (recurive copy), not the target.
-david