On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 20 February 2018, Robert P. J. Day sent: > > it all looks reasonable, until i get to a section in the user/group > > administration chapter called "configure user profiles." > > Is it referring more to administrative controls placed on user > accounts (quotas, permissions, etc)? > > It it simply referring to data about users (account names, real > names, that kind of thing)? > > You'd need to provide some more insight into what that manual talks > about to get a good answer to your question. still working my way through it, but i see nothing beyond exactly what i expect -- references to /etc/profile, .profile, /etc/skel and so on. i'm just wondering if there is actually a thing called a "user profile" in linux, beyond just what i would call account configuration or account customization or what have you. rday _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx