From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 22 14:21:23 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA22346 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 14:21:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA22339 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 14:21:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA28845; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 23:21:07 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA03666; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 23:21:06 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id XAA15967; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 23:12:08 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612222212.XAA15967@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /usr/share/skel - make world writes into it To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 23:12:08 +0100 (MET) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612221729.SAA11327@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Dec 22, 96 06:29:03 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)