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I've been making a Custom Live CD from Scratch, and I want my home directory to be preserved for live use.

I've run across /etc/skel, which looks promising, but seems to be only for adding users- not much docs on using it for live booting.

I've also seen some scanty docs on /etc/profile.d, but it seems to be more about executing scripts on boot than anything else.

How can I make it so that when a user boots my ISO live, they find all the config files and customizations I've made, along with the home directory that I've added content to?

Matt Zabojnik
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The correct folder is /etc/skel

Anything in that folder will be copied on boot to the live user home folder.

If making a custom Live CD, you can simply use cp -r /home/yourusername/. /etc/skel/

Adding the . after the yourusername/ ensures that .hidden folders are copied too.

Matt Zabojnik
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