> Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> I recently adopted a "style" of doing things that may be "Linux like" and >> thus a bad thing in the strict UNIX world. I began to put my root user in >> a >> home directory of /root along with all of the dot files that get created >> for > > PSARC 2003/039 Alternate home directory for root user. Filed > by me for me because like you it bugged me all the crap that appears in > / by it being root's home dir; though I punted the implementation of it > to someone else. > > Sadly though not yet integrated but should be coming soon, IIRC.
I am glad to see that this will be "officially" possible in the near future and almost certainly reasonable today. I have my copy of "System Administration Guide: Basic Administration" ( 817-0402-06.pdf at 772 pages ) open and am looking in there to see what the scripture had to say. No sense in looking really. It will say to leave root at / and thats the end of that. I feel that I am perfectly safe to toss the root user into /root and have begun to do this. For the past year at least. >> the root user. Like the .sunw directory which seems to appear out of >> nowhere. > > See pkcs11_softtoken(5) for what is in there. Thank you. Ah yes .. the never ending manpages. One must read read read on the leading edge. >> Certainly .profile and ( *gasp* ) .bash_history ! I really do not >> want to see these things all over my / area. I was recently told this is >> a >> very "bad thing" and that it harms the way vipw works. > > It did. And continues to do so today I guess. >> I never heard of >> vipw, certainly not since Madonna was still making hit records, on vinyl. >> >> Or am I mistaken here ? Old fashioned and confused ? > > Neither the person telling you that didn't know about: > > 6317935 vipw forces root login directory to / > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6317935 > It says "State : Closed, fixed" and thus must be in a patch somewhere for Solaris 10 GA ? Or strictly "solaris_nevada(snv_36)" ? Probably a patch on the way. Thank you for PSARC 2003/039 ! -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
