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Date:      Fri, 24 May 1996 08:30:50 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: /usr/share/skel/dotfiles are overwritten
Message-ID:  <199605240630.IAA21714@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605232026.WAA01774@campa.panke.de> from Wolfram Schneider at "May 23, 96 10:26:58 pm"

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As Wolfram Schneider wrote:

> >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.

I suggest adduser(8) should pick /etc/skel/ in case this directory
exists, and then fall back to /usr/share/skel/.

-- 
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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