On 2005-05-11T20:24, Christian Jones wrote: > A minor, even trivial, perhaps pointless issue---but I'm curious: > > /etc/skel/.profile includes the line > export PATH HOME TERM > > This appears to be unnecessary; login(1) places all three into the > environment. Simple testing with ksh and sh reveal no changes > resulting from the removal of this line. A bit of archive searching > makes it looks like this hasn't been asked, googling resulted in no > help, and a quick glance at cvs shows this was in the initial import. > > Is there a reason this is here? (I'm not suggesting there's > necessarily a reason to remove it.) Is this used by other shells in > ports, or by any sh in the works? Just noticed it, got curious, and > decided to waste some time figuring it out---hope I haven't wasted too > much of yours. ;-)
/etc/skel/.profile isn't used at the login. Read man adduser. The /etc/skel/* could be copied to a new users homedir. hth, Marcus.
