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Date:      Thu, 23 May 1996 22:26:58 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@campa.panke.de>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   /usr/share/skel/dotfiles are overwritten
Message-ID:  <199605232026.WAA01774@campa.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605230745.JAA24733@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
References:  <199605230745.JAA24733@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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Christoph P. Kukulies writes:
>make world overwrites /usr/share/skel/dotfiles.
>Is this the intention?  

Yes. /usr/share/skel is an *example* directory for dot files, see
hier(7). 


>Or is there a way  override
>/usr/share/skel by /usr/local/share/skel or something?
>I mean, do the shells provide for such an alternate path?

No shell use any file from /usr/share/skel. For adduser(8), try
option -dotdir /usr/local/share/skel or something.

Wolfram



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