From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Mar 7 12:33:22 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51AEDCFB7B4 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2017 12:33:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "cdptpa-oedge", Issuer "cdptpa-oedge" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 185ED1129 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2017 12:33:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from [76.181.114.47] ([76.181.114.47:57416] helo=raspberrypi.bildanet.com) by cdptpa-omsmta02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id 3D/C6-16480-A88AEB85; Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:33:14 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.40] (helo=desktop.example.org) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1clEIk-0004G8-A7; Tue, 07 Mar 2017 07:33:14 -0500 Subject: Re: /etc/skel doesn't work?! To: Arthur Chance , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1488813922.11457.12.camel@inhio.net> <20170306195758.17d83f1d.freebsd@edvax.de> <20170306194515.GA1541@hephaistos.local> <20170306224041.21c7b709.freebsd@edvax.de> <679e1574-178f-5395-45f5-44a1ef377822@columbus.rr.com> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <6ef72837-3399-86ec-e2eb-8260b256acef@columbus.rr.com> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 07:33:14 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.7:25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:33:22 -0000 On 03/07/17 07:23, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 07/03/2017 12:12, Baho Utot wrote: >> >> >> On 03/06/17 16:40, Polytropon wrote: >>> 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. :-) >>> >>> >>> >> >> That would be all well and good, but /etc/skel just doesn't work > > Nowhere is it documented to work. man adding_user, man pw.conf and man > adduser all document /usr/share/skel as the relevant directory. > > FreeBSD is not Linux, and RTFM is always sound advice. > Then why is /etc/skel there and FTFM