Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Brenden Walker <BKWalker@××××××××××.com>
To: 'Tom Hosiawa' <tomek32@××××××.com>, gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] .bashrc and .bash_profile
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:02:06
Message-Id: E6C5AB880E3CD311B34E00902785FB61034096CE@dsiw.drbsystems.com
1 > -----Original Message-----
2 > From: Tom Hosiawa [mailto:tomek32@××××××.com]
3 > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:23 PM
4 > To: gentoo-dev
5 > Subject: [gentoo-dev] .bashrc and .bash_profile
6 >
7 >
8 > I asked this before on gentoo-user but didn't really get a
9 > response, so I thought I would ask here.
10 >
11 > Why isn't .bashrc and .bash_profile from /etc/skel used by
12 > default in /root?
13
14 /etc/skel is copied into home directories when they are created via adduser
15 or other scripts. They are not defaults other than for new user creation.
16 The root user is never created in the usual user creation fashion, so the
17 /etc/skel files are never copied.
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