/etc/skel files in /root should be copied by tmpfiles
ajeddeloh opened this issue · 4 comments
Having a systemd service to copy a file on first boot seems hacky. We ought to convert it to a tmpfiles rule and let tmpfiles handle it.
We could even just use symlinks since we're not modifying the files.
Oh neat, just saw the C entry type. Hadn't realized systemd-tmpfiles could do this. Yeah, I think we can and should do this.
We could even just use symlinks since we're not modifying the files.
I don't think we want to do this though. First, it'd mean that all other user's homes are different from /root in that respect, but also a naive vi /root/.bashrc will actually end up modifying the template instead of just for the root user.
Ahh OK, the symlinks as proposed in #137 are actually to /usr/etc, which makes this better. Though the UX of having to unlink and copy in order to edit one of those files is a bit odd. Having to hardcode the list of skeleton files is also unfortunate.
Hmm, actually another UX issue too is that one can't easily just append to the default config anymore. (See the commit message in #83 (comment)).