>Brian McCafferty writes: >> 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. > >It seems to be a Linicism. > >If you log into your system as root, you'll eventually end up with a >lot of trash littering the / directory. That's unattractive, so >hiding it away under some directory (still on the root file system) is >a plus. > >But I think you have to be in the bad habit of logging in as root >first.
To me, it also goes against the grain of Unix; one of the reasons why root is called root is because he lives there. For consistency, we should have renamed the superuser account to "slashroot" Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
