Re: determine when user account created?

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:52:34 -0500

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:29:39 -0400, Barry Margolin wrote:

> Users modify stuff in their home directories all the time. I would
> never assume that anything in the user's directory has been untouched
> since their account was created. Why do you expect a symlink from
> .bash_profile to .bashrc to stay around?

That symlink, if it were even created in the first place, would be quite
unlikely to be changed. Of course the user can change any file in his
home directory, but some are unlikely to be changed, ~/.dtprofile as an
example.

I am also aware that backup restores or simply copying with tar from one
disk to a new disk can cause errors there. For instance,

# ls -la .??*
-rw-r--r-- 1 username sysadmin 1430 Dec 7 2002 .kshrc

Yet this system was installed Aug 23, 2004.

OTOH, how many hidden files in *your* home directory were added on the
date your user account was created and still retain the same date/time?

> I'm not even sure why these
> would be linked together in the first place, since they serve different
> purposes -- .bash_profile is only for the login shell, while .bashrc is
> for every shell.

~/.bashrc is not sourced at login so apparently it is not for *every*
instance of shell invocation.

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