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

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