FreeBSD Skeleton Directory - FreeBSD SKEL files What is FreeBSD Skeleton Directory and where are FreeBSD skel files located ? When every user is created, there are some files created automatically in it's home directory.
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:
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