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Re: More advanced home directory creation in Debian?



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.


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