pam_mkhomedir not copying everything in /etc/skel

[Warwick Chapman <budgee theespot co za>]

Howdy

I dunnow if I need to subscribe somewhere, if I do, could someone let me know 
at budgee@theespot.co.za - so I can follow this thread.

I have placed a copy of a "user profile" as such in the /etc/skel - it is a 
copy of the configuration files and some necessary directories from another 
user's homedir. I checked that the permissions on the new /etc/skel were the 
same as were on original.

The following is the inconsistency:

If I create a user with 'adduser username' - the entire /etc/skel is copied. 
If I then delete that user's homedir and log in again so pam_mkhomedir 
creates the homedir, only 803k of abour 2.2m is copied. The .bash* files are 
not copied, but the '.kde' (permissions: 755) directory is. The empty 'mail' 
(permissions: 755) directory is copied, but a 300kb .png file (permissions: 
655) is not? And so on and so on, except that I'll soon run out of things 
that were copied. 

Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?

Linux-Mandrake 8.1 (2.4.8)
pam-0.75

Thanks
Budgee

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Warwick Bruce Chapman
Network Administrator
Glenwood High School
Durban, South Africa
+27 83 7797094