New usr & skel

[Seeker]

/etc/skel
/usr/share/skel
/usr/local/share/skel

Only second 1, is populated and "in effect"
For what, others 2, are used?


Layout of skel dir(/usr/share/skel), affects/populates ONLY usr's home dir.
I wana new users, to have certain dirs created elsewhere too, i.e; in /var/some/folder, too.

When new user is created something creates 0 byte file: /var/mail/$USER
What and how can I influence it?

 

[graudeejs]

create a sh script, wrapper to pw

 

[Seeker]

That I know, thank you. But if there is a lower level to do it....

Also what about other 2 questions?

 

[SirDice]

But if there is a lower level to do it....

You can't get much lower then pw(8). If you look closely you will notice adduser(8) is a shell script that uses pw.

 

[Seeker]

skel/<something_other>, that doesn't affects/populates only $HOME, but also other file system places/locations

Also what about other 2 questions?