- rsync -rRulog $HOME $SKEL;
+ cp -a $HOME $SKEL;

cp -R $HOME $SKEL

tima@home-pc:~$ ls -R /synchome.d/pam_test_user
/synchome.d/pam_test_user:
pam_test_user
/synchome.d/pam_test_user/pam_test_user:
Desktop

       -R, --relative
              Use  relative paths. This means that the full path names specified on the command line
              are sent to the server rather than just the last parts of the filenames. This is  par‐
              ticularly useful when you want to send several different directories at the same time.
              For example, if you used this command:

                 rsync -av /foo/bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/

              ... this would create a file named baz.c in /tmp/ on the remote  machine.  If  instead
              you used

                 rsync -avR /foo/bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/

              then  a file named /tmp/foo/bar/baz.c would be created on the remote machine, preserv‐
              ing its full path.  These extra path elements are called "implied  directories"  (i.e.
              the "foo" and the "foo/bar" directories in the above example).