Re: Modifying the /etc/skel

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:26:24 -0000

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:43:05 -0700, Matias Silva
  <matt@nospam.com> wrote:
> How can modify the skel so that it adds subdirectories that are custom
> to each user account?
>
> For instance say I want to add a user bpfish and so I create a
> directory /etc/skel/Web but but when I adduser bpfish I want to create
> /home/bpfish/Web/bpfish. So when I adduser jmclam the system creates
> /home/bpfish/Web/jmclam.
>
> I know I can write a customized "adduser" script that does all this,
> but I was wondering if I can leverage existing stuff.
>
> Thanks
> Matt

man adduser
     If the file /usr/local/sbin/adduser.local exists, it will be
executed
       after the user account has been set up in order to do any local
setup.
       The arguments passed to adduser.local are:
       username uid gid home-directory, and the environment variables
DEBUG
       and VERBOSE will be set according to the settings in the master
program. 

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