From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 23 23:52:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA03443 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 23:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA03364 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 23:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA25279 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 08:51:40 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA17505 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 24 May 1996 08:51:40 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA21714 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 24 May 1996 08:30:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605240630.IAA21714@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /usr/share/skel/dotfiles are overwritten To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 08:30:50 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605232026.WAA01774@campa.panke.de> from Wolfram Schneider at "May 23, 96 10:26:58 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-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)