No file in /etc/skel is copied when useradd is run on a home directory without acl
Issue
- Files in
/etc/skelthat have acls cause the copy of files to a new user's home directory to fail whenuseraddis run.useraddcan add a new user, but reports the following error message then.
copydir(): preserving permissions for /home/kikuchi/.kde: Operation not supported
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6
- shadow-utils-4.0.17-18.el5
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