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Re: [debian-knoppix] How does etc/skel work?



On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:56:14PM -0800, Nathan Chilton wrote:
> However, something I have done has caused the
> /etc/skel files to be missing from /home/knoppix
> 
> My question:
> How does the skel magic happen?  What script normally
> copies the files to the home directory and are there
> file/folder permissions issues that could be causing
> my problem?

On a harddisk installation, useradd -m copies the skel files into the
new users homedirectory. That's what the directory /etc/skel is
normally used for.

On Knoppix, the copy is done on-demand when you start X,
the script for doing this is /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession.

Regards
-Klaus
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