Re: More advanced home directory creation in Debian?

[Jerome Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>]

On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 19:00 -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer
> <calestyo@scientia.net> wrote:
> > You're aware that not only .bash_* and .profile can be distributed
> > by /etc/skel,... but any other config file (e.g. .vimrc) a specific site
> > or organisation may found useful for their users?
> > Or a predefined directory structure,... ssh config perhaps specific for
> > each user?
> 
> /etc/skel is used to populate user home directories on user creation,
> nothing more. For system-wide settings , use /etc (e.g.
> /etc/vim/vimrc.local). Use site-specific scripts for any more
> convoluted needs you might have. There's nothing to be discussed about
> this, really.

Think about places where the home is on a server, while /etc is on local
workstations.
You need to extend your vision.