System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Add Customized User Initialization Files

Although you cannot create customized user initialization files with the Users Tool, you can populate a user's home directory with user initialization files located in a specified “skeleton” directory. You can do this by creating a user template with the User Templates tool and specifying a skeleton directory from which to copy user initialization files.

You can customize the user initialization templates in the /etc/skel directory and then copy them to users' home directories.