From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 28 20:59:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f104.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9701E37B422 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:59:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clcont@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:59:55 -0700 Received: from 24.179.72.230 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 03:59:54 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.179.72.230] From: "Christopher Leigh" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: getting pw to add users with /usr/share/skel as defaults and make a homedir Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:59:54 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Apr 2001 03:59:55.0107 (UTC) FILETIME=[D9834330:01C0D060] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi. i've been having problems getting pw to make a home directory in /home and follow /usr/share/skel. i tried pw add user username -d /usr/home/username -k /usr/share/skel, but it doesn't work. defaultpasswd random home /usr/home skeleton /usr/share/skel is what i have in my /etc/pw.conf file. it creates the user, but it doesn't create the home directory. how do i get it to create the user & home dir w/ the contents of /usr/share/skel? tyvm, christopher _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message