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Does anyone know the procedure for moving users (Home Directory) from one server to another?
Is there an application that can do this?
Xserve G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I see your problem and I think I will soon have the same one.
I suppose one option would be to delete out the .plist. Then when the user logs in the server should recreate it. If the user had customized it they would of course lose any information.
You could also setup a loginhook that would just run the needed defaults write... and update them as needed. Actually I think that would be the easiest option. The only down side would be making sure every use logs in once before you remove the script.
Hmm I guess another option would be a script that loops through all the users accounts and runs the command as the user. sudo -u usershortname defaults... But I am not sure if this would have to be done on the server it self or if it could be done through a client.
Sorry for the rambling but I am trying to come up with an answer..

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