https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218897
Bug ID: 218897
Summary: /etc/skel is a directory with no functionality
whatsoever
Product: Base System
Version: 11.0-STABLE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: conf
Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: a...@inhio.net
This may be a duplicate of Bug 46062. If so please close this and complete the
other or vice versa.
As recently discussed in the email thread created by myself "/etc/skel doesn't
work?!" (dated: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:25:22 -0300) on freebsd-questions, appears
quite clear (as pointed out by Arthur Chance) that /etc/skel has been added by
Jordan Hubbard on Feb 27th 1998 with the comment:
"MFC: /etc/skel doesn't seem to be used in the -current branch either,
but it doesn't hurt."
At present time /etc/skel has no functionality whatsoever, is a dead directory,
a leftover dragged until now on the base system from an unclear intention dated
almost 20 years back.
It causes confusion, is useless, I believe it is the right time to delete it.
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