On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 19:05 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 20:10 +1300, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > > > does it work recursivly through multiple levels of the file tree, and > > does it mater who owns what in /etc/skel before I create the new > > user? > > Try it and see. You're creating a new user, so you're not going to > stuff up any existing users. > > The skel directory populates *new* users, so it couldn't possibly > already have the ownerships set for that new user. My guess would be > that it'd be filled with root owned files and folders, so that no other > ordinary user could poison things for new users. As I mentioned earlier, in the Linux BBS days files in skel would be installed in a new users /home/username directory and all of them would be chown'd by the new user... the whole reason for skel.... back when. Give it a whirl, you can't hurt nuttin'. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
