Why not use 'sudo' for getting (restricted) root privileges?
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We have several people w/ UID 0 (a practice I'm not sure is good...), all
with their own home directories, and have not yet found any problems.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Post, Mark K [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:18 AM
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> Lonny,
>
> True, but most of the documentation tells you to define superusers as
having
> a home directory of "/". In the early days, some things would break if
you
> did not. I haven't checked lately, so I don't know if that's changed at
> all.
>
> Mark Post
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sivey,Lonny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:07 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: ssh success and yet another question
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> Mark,
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> There are many things to complain about with Unix System Services, but
> that's not one of them. Each user can have a different home directory
> regardless of whether or not they run as UID(0). The home directory is
set
> in the user's OMVS segment. This is assuming you are using Security
Server
> (RACF). I'm not sure how 3rd party security products implement this.
The
> $HOME variable will be automatically set to the value in the user's OMVS
> segment.
>
> Lonny
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: ssh success and yet another question
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> Unfortunately, "/" is the home directory for root users on Unix System
> Services. Yet another example of IBM getting it wrong in that
environment.
> :(
>
> Still, I just did a test on a z/OS 1.2 system:
> mkdir //.ssh/
> worked by creating /.ssh as I expected it to.
>
> Paul, are you running with a read-only root HFS? If so, then you'll have
to
> set the HOME environment variable. If not, simply creating the .ssh
> directory should work.
>
> Mark Post
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: ssh success and yet another question
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> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, paultz wrote:
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> >
> > Now everything is talking, and the only annoyance is this:
> > When I answer "Yes" to the question of "Are you sure you want to
> > continue connecting (yes/no)?", I get:
> > "Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts
(//.ssh/known_hosts)."
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> HOME seems to be set to '/'
>
> Are you doing this as root or as a normal user?
>
> Either way, set HOME to the correct value.
>
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