On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 03:37:05AM +0200, Theo Buehler wrote: > Populating the $ADMIN's $_home with some files from siteXX.tgz looks > like a legitimate use case to me, especially for authorized_keys, but > also for the dotfiles in /etc/skel.
That was my intuitive (and somewhat limited) understanding of siteXX.tgz. While echoing some strings to authorized_keys from install.site is straightforward enough, the "construction" of various other dotfiles may turn out cumbersome in the long run. I hope your suggestion turn out feasible. Thank you to trondd and yourself for making a couple of things clearer to me. > How about not overwriting already existing files? > > Index: install.sub > =================================================================== > RCS file: /var/cvs/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub,v > retrieving revision 1.1011 > diff -u -p -r1.1011 install.sub > --- install.sub 28 May 2017 09:24:56 -0000 1.1011 > +++ install.sub 30 May 2017 00:18:16 -0000 > @@ -2919,7 +2919,7 @@ do_install(){ > > _home=/mnt$_home > mkdir -p $_home > - (cd /mnt/etc/skel; cp -pR . $_home) > + (cd /mnt/etc/skel; pax -rw -k -pe . $_home) > (umask 077 && sed "s,^To: root\$,To: ${ADMIN_NAME} <${ADMIN}>," > \ > /mnt/var/mail/root >/mnt/var/mail/$ADMIN ) > chown -R 1000:1000 $_home /mnt/var/mail/$ADMIN >