Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> I would like to have the same configuration and access the same data
> folders whether I'm logged in as root, or as my user id.
>
> I thought of having the two sharing /root as home dir; would this
> create a security weak-spot ? Or any other problems ?
>
> Any advice will be gratefully received.
My advice would be don't do this. If for no other reason then to discouage
the use of root. If there is data that *must* be shared between them,
remember that root is not subject to the same restrictions regarding file /
directory ownership that a regular user is subject to. Therefore you could
go ahead and put the shared stuff into the regular user's home directory.
Or even a completely seperate directory.
Now then, having said that, if you *must* have the same directory for both
root and a regular user I suppose one way to do this would be make both
/root and ~$USER links to a third directory, where the third directory is
where the data would actually go. I've never tried anything quite like
that, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. It might get a bit awkward for
some package's configs, but I don't know that for sure.
If it's the differences in shell config and such that's the main point, I'd
say make a subdirectory somewhere - /usr/local/configs seems likely, as
anything under /usr/local is guaranteed not to be touched by automatic
system actions - and put copies of the config files there. Then make links
to them from both the user's directory and from /root
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