Preventing adduser from creating additional folders in home directory

[armandhr]

I'm trying to set up a specific directory structure for each home folder whenever I add a new user. I have what I want in /etc/skel, but I'd also like to eliminate the Documents, Music, Pictures, etc. folders that Ubuntu automatically creates when a new user is added. Is there any way to do this? Where are these extra directories defined? I didn't see anything in the /etc/adduser.conf file--is there some additional script that is run whenever a new user is added?

[dcstar]

I'm trying to set up a specific directory structure for each home folder whenever I add a new user. I have what I want in /etc/skel, but I'd also like to eliminate the Documents, Music, Pictures, etc. folders that Ubuntu automatically creates when a new user is added. Is there any way to do this? Where are these extra directories defined? I didn't see anything in the /etc/adduser.conf file--is there some additional script that is run whenever a new user is added?

AFAIK they are default Gnome folders, automatically created at first login to Gnome by that user. They have nothing to do with the default Linux folders.

[armandhr]

AFAIK they are default Gnome folders, automatically created at first login to Gnome by that user. They have nothing to do with the default Linux folders.

Ah, that does make a lot more sense. So are they set via /etc/xdg or something? If I set "enabled=False" in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf, will that prevent these folders from being generated at the first session, or could I perhaps blank out the entries in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults?

Edit: Marking the thread as solved. Just in case anyone else has the same question, changing /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf to "enabled=False" did indeed prevent these folders from being generated at the first login to Gnome. I am running Ubuntu 10.04.

[Tekcronic]

Ah, that does make a lot more sense. So are they set via /etc/xdg or something? If I set "enabled=False" in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf, will that prevent these folders from being generated at the first session, or could I perhaps blank out the entries in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults?

Edit: Marking the thread as solved. Just in case anyone else has the same question, changing /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf to "enabled=False" did indeed prevent these folders from being generated at the first login to Gnome. I am running Ubuntu 10.04.

As stated in the comments of /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf

# You can also have per-user config in ~/.config/user-dirs.conf, or specify
# the XDG_CONFIG_HOME and/or XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to override this

More information can be found here:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/bas...ec-latest.html