From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 7:33: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-208-191-227-84.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.227.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6788737B404 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:32:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (sageone [192.168.0.5]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2LFVrQ30775; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:31:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from admin@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020321093151.011ed5f0@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: admin@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:31:51 -0600 To: John Bleichert , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Server Admin Subject: Re: How to see files in user home directory In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, his user has "." dot files, including .forward that were made, they just aren't running the right "ls" command to see them.... At 10:15 AM 3.21.2002 -0500, John Bleichert wrote: >On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:27:23 -0500 >> From: Joe & Fhe Barbish >> To: FBSDQ >> Subject: How to see files in user home directory >> >> Created user using adduser taking all the defaults. >> When logged in user can not see his .files with ls command. >> >> Is this normal? >> >> User needs to see .forward file. How to change so users can see .files? >> >> > >If 'ls -a' doesn't show the user's hidden files (starting with a '.') then >they don't exist. FBSD comes delivered with extremely stripped new user >defaults which definately don't include .forward files. > >I think it is expected that any sysadmin would want to set up the skel >directory manually. The skel directory is the skeleton used as a reference >in creating new user accounts. Off the top of my head I can't remember >where it is in FBSD - /etc/skel ? See the adduser man page. > >HTH - JB > > >|-John Bleichert----syborg@stny.rr.com----------------| >|-------------------http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg--| > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message