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From: Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:41:53
Message-Id: 1190291358.1101.9.camel@uberlaptop.development.ltl
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs? by "John R. Graham"
1 On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:57 -0400, John R. Graham wrote:
2 > Why can't the simple little default
3 > .bash_profile from /etc/skel be put into /root as well
4
5 /etc/skel is for users created by the add user commands.
6 root is inherently added *before* bash is installed, thus
7 doesn't get anything from skel.
8 Also, don't assume that the root user uses the bash shell.
9
10 Thanks
11
12 Roy
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs? Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>