Re: preconfiguration on the user side and its maintenance

[Patrick Willam <p.willam@gmx.de>]

Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 07-10-2004 16:06, Patrick Willam wrote:
>
> | At least some of this user-specific things can't be done by just copying
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | files from /etc/skel/ to $HOME. Regarding this, /etc/skel/ is like an
> | image, but one needs a template [also?/instead?].
> |
> | So what I would like to see is a hook in the process of creating $HOME
> | where one can link own scripts into it ...or cfengine-scripts.
> | "man adduser" says "/usr/local/sbin/adduser.local" is the hook to be
> | used. (...Is it really this the place to go for? Please read on...)
>
> Simply tweak the configuration files below /etc ?
>
> Sorry if I misunderstand you, but why change _default_ values below
> $HOME, when it can be done below /etc?
>
> Programs that has no option of default setup below /etc is badly
> designed IMHO.

Yes, you misunderstood me.
It's about making config-settings in the files in the respective $HOME,
where you can't just use the default from /etc/ or from /etc/skel/,
because you need _a_different_setting_for_each_user_.
An example was the email address of each user in Kmail.

Best wishes,
  Patrick