On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:57 -0400, John R. Graham wrote: > Why can't the simple little default > .bash_profile from /etc/skel be put into /root as well
/etc/skel is for users created by the add user commands. root is inherently added *before* bash is installed, thus doesn't get anything from skel. Also, don't assume that the root user uses the bash shell. Thanks Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list