On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Simon Bryan wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have this line in my pam.d/login file:
>
> session required /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel
>
> while this creates the user directory nicely, it creates new copies of the dot files
> rather than copying the ones from /etc/skel. Is there anyway I can force it to copy
> the ones in /etc/skel? This would remove the need for my users (school students who
> only know Windows) from having to setup their proxy settings abd Open Office
> settings.
Umm... normally when you run useradd it COPIES from /etc/skel so I'm
thinking this should be what happens ... especially since it's mentioned
in your pam line. Maybe it's got a permissions problem (strange for root
though). Just a thought... is /home NFS/SMB mounted or something like
that?
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