/etc/skel doesn't work?!

[Baho Utot]

On 03/06/17 16:40, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 21:51:25 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote:
>> Just out of interest...
>>
>> Is there any reason why /etc/skel IS there then?  Other than to create
>> confusion of course.
>
> I think /etc/skel is intended for user-supplied files in the
> first place when overriding system-supplied files in /usr/share/skel
> is intended (by changing the default location for tools like pw
> and adduser). It's also a Linuxism. :-)
>
>
>

That would be all well and good, but /etc/skel just doesn't work