Brad Beveridge wrote:
You were in root's "home" directory, which is usually /root
Rob Wood wrote:
Greetings, When I log in as root say on my debian box (text only)I have a prompt:
mkIIdebian:~#
1. If I do 'ls' from here I get a file list:
dead.letter install-report.template and dbootstrap.settings
2. If I go to the root directory 'cd /' and do 'ls' I get the following plus others
bin dev home temp var mnt
So where was I at 1. and why wasn't I in the root directory as I had logged in as root?
Not an important query but one of those niggling questions.
Cheers Woodsey
'grep root /etc/passwd'
will give you useful info about the root account. This is a pretty typical entry
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
The colon separated fields are well documented elsewhere, but the 6th entry is the home directory for the user.
hth,
Steve
