Attached is a patch to use /etc/skel when creating a new shell user. This is useful for example sharing the same SSH key for hg authentication on a dev server.

It's a suboptimal way to do this (the proper way would be to use the -k option of useradd, but that's not possible since the same routine isn't creating the directory), but at least it works :)

Index: server/plugins-available/shelluser_base_plugin.inc.php

--- server/plugins-available/shelluser_base_plugin.inc.php (revision 2470) +++ server/plugins-available/shelluser_base_plugin.inc.php (working copy) @@ -88,7 +88,11 @@ exec($command); $app->log("Executed command: ".$command,LOGLEVEL_DEBUG); $app->log("Added shelluser: ".$data['new']['username'],LOGLEVEL_DEBUG);

•                            $command = 'cp -R -n /etc/skel/. ' . escapeshellcmd($data['new']['dir']);

•                            exec($command);

•                            $app->log("Executed command: ".$command,LOGLEVEL_DEBUG);

•   		// call the ssh-rsa update function
    		$app->uses("getconf");
    		$this->data = $data;