Changing Users Default Env variables at creation
 

Okay Thanks for helping me for starters. I just installed postfix and dovecot on my CentOS 6 Server and got it configured to use system users. Now I also got the default mail dir

$HOME/Maildir

So what I am trying to figure out is how would I stop the /var/spool/mail file from creating and changed the users default MAIL variable to $HOME/Maildir

Now I changed the MAIL variable by editing /etc/skel/.bash_profile and adding these 2 lines.

And I added another file to /etc/skel/Maildir with permissions 0700

Now I think there is another way to achieve this and would like some suggestions.

Thanks again

I don't understand that unless you mean "changing from something else to $HOME/Maildir".


/etc/skel/ files are dumped in the users account on account creation which means they'll be subject to any change the user makes (also note ~/.bash_profile won't be read if BaSH is invoked as "/bin/sh" but instead ~/.profile). For BaSH and Bourne Shell variables are read from the /etc/profile.d/ directory (see /etc/profile) so you should be able to get away by settingjust once.



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No ~/Maildir created with user automatically
 

System is Centos 7
Postfix
Dovecot
MySQL

Frankly I am more than a little surprised that creating a user is not creating the ~/Maildir with the correct permissions and any sub-folders that are needed. I would have thought that was a "gimmie" so to speak.

I would like to set up user creation so that it automatically adds the ~/Maildir with the correct permissions and I guess files structures.

I tried your command

" echo 'MAIL="${HOME}/Maildir"; export MAIL' > /etc/profile.d/maildir.sh "

and while it appears in /etc/profile.d it is not propagated to the users created. At least it didn't work for me.

I have read documents till I'm blue in the face for the past 2 days and have no answer. This thread was as close as I got and like I said, no go.

I'm still trying to figure out how to do this other than /etc/skel

Thanks for your help in advance.

Hi,

please start a new thread for your question. When you do, please include what method you are using to create new users.

Regards,

Evo2.

ok thanks
 

ok thanks

Instead please report, or have the member report, the posts for moving.
That's prolly less work than mods having to trawl fora for duplicates.
TIA