Richard Mancusi wrote: > Okay, I did another clean install and can repeat the problem. On a test > system I always set a root password and allow root logon. Yes, I know > that isn't a great idea, but it comes in handy on a test system. > > As soon as I set a root password in System/Administration/Users and Groups > the root user Home directory moved from /root to /home/root. > > I guess it's a matter of opinion as to whether this is a bug. Ubuntu and > common sense tells you to not set a root password. But if you are going > to allow it, it should work correctly. I leave that to the developers. > Agreed, setting a root password is a common Unix feature that should remain possible to do with a simple 'sudo passwd' or optionally using the Users admin tool. This should always work, regardless of what policy we'd like to promote about the root account: here it is simply a bug.
Please open a bug report on users-admin. Anyway, forbidding to set a root password should be done in a smarter way if we wanted to do so. Cheers -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss