/etc/skel doesn't work?!

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Mon Mar 6 21:41:26 UTC 2017


On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 21:51:25 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote:
> Just out of interest...
> 
> Is there any reason why /etc/skel IS there then?  Other than to create
> confusion of course.

I think /etc/skel is intended for user-supplied files in the
first place when overriding system-supplied files in /usr/share/skel
is intended (by changing the default location for tools like pw
and adduser). It's also a Linuxism. :-)



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