From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Mar 7 12:12:10 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 60CF1D009DA for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2017 12:12:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.226]) (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 28C651C5E for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2017 12:12:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from [76.181.114.47] ([76.181.114.47:57402] helo=raspberrypi.bildanet.com) by cdptpa-omsmta03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id 9F/13-21189-293AEB85; Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:12:02 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.40] (helo=desktop.example.org) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1clDyE-0004FK-Af for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2017 07:12:02 -0500 Subject: Re: /etc/skel doesn't work?! To: 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> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <679e1574-178f-5395-45f5-44a1ef377822@columbus.rr.com> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 07:12:02 -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: <20170306224041.21c7b709.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.88:25 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 12:12:10 -0000 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