Shawn Walker wrote: > On 05/05/07, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: [snip] > That way you could still do the "skel" thing, but just have the > installer copy them to the right place?
And how can we adjust the defaults if the binary (like "bash") changes it ? > I know you said the tools should get them from the right place, but > does that really happen? > > /etc/skel is fine with me, as long as the user accounts created during > installation have a chance to get the "new" defaults found /etc/skel > automatically. How would you "update" the installed ~/.profile , ~/.kshrc or ~/.bashrc files ? Most sites don't even allow _any_ modifications of user data by admins without explicit permission. This may be a tiny problem for machines with 1-5 accounts where the users work in the same floor or near your cube... but imagine the situation of you have ~~80000 accounts (and guess why PSARC 2006/550 and PSARC 2006/586 added + populated /etc/ksh.kshrc ...) ... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
