Dear All,
I would like to make a whole lot of homedirs without Documents, Downloads , .... like it was in CentOs5.
I know I have to adapt something in /etc/skel but cannot find out how to do it.
Anyone can give me a hand with this?
greetings , J.
On 26.09.2012 11:30, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
Dear All,
I would like to make a whole lot of homedirs without Documents, Downloads , .... like it was in CentOs5.
I know I have to adapt something in /etc/skel but cannot find out how to do it.
Anyone can give me a hand with this?
greetings , J.
Hello Johan,
Those directories are not from /etc/skel, I believe Gnome creates them, however I do no know how atm. Only issuing a "useradd" command will not create those directories.
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 12:13 +0100, Nux! wrote:
On 26.09.2012 11:30, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
Dear All,
I would like to make a whole lot of homedirs without Documents, Downloads , .... like it was in CentOs5.
I know I have to adapt something in /etc/skel but cannot find out how to do it.
Anyone can give me a hand with this?
greetings , J.
Hello Johan,
Those directories are not from /etc/skel, I believe Gnome creates them, however I do no know how atm. Only issuing a "useradd" command will not create those directories.
Maybe
yum remove xdg-user-dirs-gtk
John
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, John Austin wrote:
To: centos@centos.org From: John Austin ja@jaa.org.uk Subject: Re: [CentOS] make /home/user without all the maps
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 12:13 +0100, Nux! wrote:
On 26.09.2012 11:30, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
Dear All,
I would like to make a whole lot of homedirs without Documents, Downloads , .... like it was in CentOs5.
I know I have to adapt something in /etc/skel but cannot find out how to do it.
Anyone can give me a hand with this?
Take a look at this:
IIRC the answer to your question may be in this guide:
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting by Mendel Cooper
But I cannot point you to the particular location in that documentation.
HTH (sort of;)
Keith
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 01:06:27PM +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, John Austin wrote:
To: centos@centos.org From: John Austin ja@jaa.org.uk Subject: Re: [CentOS] make /home/user without all the maps
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 12:13 +0100, Nux! wrote:
On 26.09.2012 11:30, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
Dear All,
I would like to make a whole lot of homedirs without Documents, Downloads , .... like it was in CentOs5.
I know I have to adapt something in /etc/skel but cannot find out how to do it.
Anyone can give me a hand with this?
I'm looking in /etc/skel, and I see a .gnome directory--as I don't have Gnome installed, it seems to be empty on my machine. So, perhaps moving that somewhere temporarily might handle those files--they sound like Desktop files, possibly Gnome related. (A guess on my part, as, when I tried creating a test user on my system, there was no Downloads directory.
I do seem to remember either firefox or Chrome creating that directory at some point when I downloaded a file--it may have even been something like the directory does not exist should I create it and me clicking OK.
this works! commented out all the entry's in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults.
Thanks for all the answers, now I don't have to explain to 50 users they have to delete all those folders - or at least not use them.
greetings , J
Op 26-09-12 14:16, Nux! schreef:
On 26.09.2012 12:25, John Austin wrote:
Maybe
yum remove xdg-user-dirs-gtk
Good find! This has lead me to: /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
Johan, that's what you need to customise.
On 26.09.2012 13:38, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
this works! commented out all the entry's in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults.
Thanks for all the answers, now I don't have to explain to 50 users they have to delete all those folders - or at least not use them.
greetings , J
Johan,
Be advised that Gnome desktop relies on those directories to be present, e.g. Firefox downloads go by default in ~/Downloads; there may be some other issues with not having them. Maybe bigger issues than having to explain to your users. :)
hmmm. good point. The users on the server I'm configuring now will serve as guinea piggs :-) But indeed, I have to sent them a mail about changing the Firefox default download directory.
greetings, J.
Op 26-09-12 14:35, Nux! schreef:
On 26.09.2012 13:38, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
this works! commented out all the entry's in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults.
Thanks for all the answers, now I don't have to explain to 50 users they have to delete all those folders - or at least not use them.
greetings , J
Johan,
Be advised that Gnome desktop relies on those directories to be present, e.g. Firefox downloads go by default in ~/Downloads; there may be some other issues with not having them. Maybe bigger issues than having to explain to your users. :)
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