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Date:      Sun, 22 Dec 1996 23:12:08 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Subject:   Re: /usr/share/skel - make world writes into it
Message-ID:  <199612222212.XAA15967@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612221729.SAA11327@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Dec 22, 96 06:29:03 pm"

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As Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> Every time I'm building a world on one of my machines it clobbers
> the dotfiles in /usr/share/skel which are shared in our NIS/YP
> environment.

I think we've been there before.  Customized skeleton files are
supposed to be created e.g. under /etc/skel/.  Since you can configure
adduser(8) and pw(8) to pick them up there, this should basically be
no big deal, though you might run into problems sharing them across
NFS.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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