RE: [TCLUG:8052] Multiple /etc/skel entries?

["Ben Beuchler" <insyte@medilinks.net>]

Actually, on my system it is a binary file of type: ELF 32-bit LSB
executable.  The defaults are stored in a text file '/usr/defaults/useradd'
but I can't seem to find anyway of defining different settings for different
groups.  Their isn't a switch for specifying a different config file,
either...

I suppose I *could* write some sort of script that switches between two
different /usr/defaults/useradd files, based on a command line switch...

Ben

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Palmer [mailto:reid@pconline.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 10:52 AM
> To: TCLUG-List
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:8052] Multiple /etc/skel entries?
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ben Beuchler wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to have default 'adduser' settings that are different for
> > different groups?  Specifically, I would like to have two
> groups: 'ftp' and
> > 'users.'  The 'ftp' group would need to have an /etc/skel folder that
> > contained the normal bin, lib, etc entries for a guest ftp
> account that is
> > going to be 'chroot'-ed.  The 'users' account would need
> whatever default
> > configuration files they need for KDE or bash, etc...
> >
> > Currently, I have to pick one as the default and manually make
> the changes
> > for anyone from the other group.  I suppose I could set up a series of
> > scripts to handle the manual changes for me, but it would be so muc more
> > elegant to have different defaults for each group!
>
> Create a new skel for your group. Then tweak your 'adduser' script to
> point to the new skel, and name it 'adduser-ftpgroup' or something. I'm
> not near a Linux system, but on my FreeBSD system here, 'adduser' is a
> Perl script. You should be able to make this small fix with no knowledge
> of Perl or *sh (or whatever other scripting language 'adduser' might be
> in).
>
> And now you know why 'adduser' is written in an interpreted scripting
> language on every Unix system in the world. :)
>
>
> -- Chris
>
>   Christopher Reid Palmer : http://www.innerFireWorks.com/
>
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