Brian McCafferty wrote:
Can someone tell me what the reason is for the creation of /root? Why do you
make the root home directory no longer the root? I'm a little confused what
purpose this serves.
Multiple reasons:
* Lots of system daemons do chdir("/") as part of their startup. If
they use libraries that try and read config files from the users home
dir then they can end up reading the ones for the root user, that might
not be desirable.
* because the root user can have personal config files and the existence
of those files should not be available to unprivileged users, or for
tidyness.
* consistency with other systems
* because we can and there is no downside to doing so
--
Darren J Moffat
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