[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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"
So why do, daemon, sys, nobody, and noaccess cohabitate with him ?
Is the real "bug" here that they all use "/" as their home dir ?
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Darren J Moffat
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