These files that are created automatically come from FreeBSD's skeleton directory (skel) which is

/usr/share/skel

In other words, if you want, for example, to modify your FreeBSD box so that all your future users to have certain aliases edit usr/share/skel/dot.profile file with the aliases you need and save it.

(Another way would be to add the aliases in /etc/profile, but ~/.profile overwrites /etc/profile )

The customization part is also for the rest of the files. Each one for it's own use:

[root@server ~]# ls -l /usr/share/skel total 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 767 Jul 7 09:58 dot.cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 248 Jul 7 09:58 dot.login -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 158 Jul 7 09:58 dot.login_conf -rw------- 1 root wheel 373 Jul 7 09:58 dot.mail_aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 331 Jul 7 09:58 dot.mailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 797 Jul 7 09:58 dot.profile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 975 Jul 7 09:58 dot.shrc

 

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