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Re: [cobalt-users] what's the /etc/skel directory use for?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] what's the /etc/skel directory use for?
- From: Andre Bonhote <anbonhote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Nov 16 01:56:53 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Hi!
> What's the /etc/skel directory use for? and where can i find more
> detail?
I can maybe stop this list flooding by answering ...
/etc/skel is used by 'useradd' to provide a default set of files and
directories to a newly created user. If you use the -m switch of
useradd, /etc/skel's content is copied to your new users directory and
chowned to him/her.
See USERADD(8) for more details.
HTH
Andre
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