https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191490 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191490#c1 Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fvogt@suse.com, | |mvetter@suse.com Assignee|screening-team-bugs@suse.de |amajer@suse.com --- Comment #1 from Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.com> --- (In reply to Ancor Gonzalez Sosa from comment #0)

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.

IMO the best way is to only apply USRSKEL if SKEL is used as skel, either implicitly or explicitly. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.