https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191490 Bug ID: 1191490 Summary: useradd offers no way to create a home without skel files Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 15.3 Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem Assignee: screening-team-bugs@suse.de Reporter: ancor@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- YaST Users is being partially rewritten to rely on the tools of the shadow packages (useradd & friends) as much as possible. One option that YaST currently offers is to create a new user with an empty home (that is, not copying the skel user to it). Currently useradd copies file from the directory specified by the SKEL configuration variable and also from the location indicated by USRSKEL. And there is no way to fully avoid that. One may think that running this is the way to specify you want an empty home:
useradd --skel /var/lib/empty username
But that still copies the files from the location of USRSKEL. And there is no argument to influence the value of usrskel. Not sure what the correct solution is: 1) maybe ignoring USRSKEL as well if "--skel /var/lib/empty" (or /dev/null or similar) was provided 2) maybe offering another parameter similar to "--skel" but to override USRSKEL. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.