Fedora Tips

by Krishnan Subramanian

2004-02-10 Fedora Tips 38:
If you want to set the same default settings for all your users, you can set it in /etc/skel. Typical files in that directory is given below.

drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Feb  3 20:03 .
drwxr-xr-x   69 root     root         8192 Feb 10 04:04 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           24 Dec  9 13:09 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          191 Dec  9 13:09 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          124 Dec  9 13:09 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          237 Oct 27 08:40 .emacs
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          120 Jan 26 15:17 .gtkrc
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Aug 12  2002 .kde
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan  5 01:43 .xemacs

If you want to store the initial user settings in another location, you can do so by editing /etc/default/useradd - submitted by Krishnan Subramanian