Re: [Sheflug] enteruser pw pw.conf

[fred <fred.dodd [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris
> >
> > It can create user accounts with the creation of public_html directory
> > 
> 
> If it's for this, then useradd can create home directories based on a 
> skeleton if you specify the "-m" flag ... the skeleton is usually
> /etc/skel but you can change this with the "-k" switch. useradd just copies 
> this directory to the new users home (i.e., the equivalent of just doing:
> cp -pr /etc/skel $HOME ).


Fine this is the contents of my /etc/skel directory.


> If I've missed summat, shout :)
> 
> Chris...
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What file should I edit for useradd to create public_html when a new user is created.


 

[root@lxserver skel]# ls -lh
total 4.0K
drwx------    2 root     root         4.0K Aug 14  2002 tmp/
[root@lxserver skel]# ls -la
total 36
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Apr  8 23:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x   73 root     root         8192 Jun 16 06:15 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           24 Jan 14 19:33 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          191 Jan 14 19:33 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          124 Jan 14 19:33 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          141 May 15  2001 .mailcap
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3761 Jan 20 14:25 .screenrc
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Aug 14  2002 tmp/


right useradd -k   # template file

Please could you give it as by way of an example!!

regards 

derf

> 
> fred <fred.dodd [at] btinternet.com>

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