On Ubuntu 10.4 I have edited the /etc/bash.bashrc file to set some variables like the command history size (HISTSIZE=5000), however if I create a new users Ubuntu by default gives them a .bashrc file in their home directory with this set as HISTSIZE=1000 which is overriding mine. How can I change the default .bashrc file that is created?
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Method 1
You may put default configurations in /etc/skel so that useradd(8) can copy files in /etc/skel whenever it creates new user’s directory by ‘-m’ option.
Note that this is used only for the new-user. Existing user accounts are not affected.
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