Madan Thapa wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:44 PM, mark <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Raj Har wrote: >>> hello everybody, >>> i am new in Linux so please help me. >>> i made users like user1,user2,user3,user4.not from useradd command. >>> and i wanna copy all skel file in these users home directory. >>> i am using this command. >>> cp -rf /etc/skel/.bash* /home/user* >>> but its not working. >>> >>> and i wanna know exact mean of "-r" option. <snip> useradd(8) useradd(8) NAME useradd - create a new user account SYNOPSIS useradd [-D binddn] [-P path] [-c comment] [-d homedir] [-e expire] [-f inactive] [-G group,...] [-g gid] [-m [-k skeldir]] [-o] [-p password] [-u uid] [-r] [-s shell] [--service service] [--help] [--usage] [-v] account useradd --show-defaults useradd --save-defaults [-d homedir] [-e expire] [-f inactive] [-g gid] [-G group,...] [-k skeldir] [-s shell] DESCRIPTION useradd creates a new user account using the default values from /etc/default/useradd and the specified on the command line. Depending on the command line options the new account will be added to the system files or LDAP database, the home directory will be created and the ini- tial default files and directories will be copied. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list