Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:25:22 -0300 From: ASV <asv@inhio.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /etc/skel doesn't work?! Message-ID: <1488813922.11457.12.camel@inhio.net>
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Hello there, I haven't use this standard functionality for ages but yesterday I suddenly needed and then I've tried ... and failed. Further reading led me to add files that I want to be added on any new user home dir in /usr/share/skel/dot(filename). For example: to make my customised .zshrc copied on any new user home dir I'd just copy the .zshrc file in question to /usr/share/skel/dot.zshrc and it will be copied with the proper rights without the prepending "dot". And that works! Nonetheless, according to my understanding, any file placed into /etc/skel should end up into the newly created user home directory but it does NOT. Doesn't matter how the file is named. Looks like a bug to me. My machine: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 (amd64) Command used: pw useradd <username> -m P.S. would be interesting to know why "dot" is required to be prepended in files added in /usr/share/skel
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