Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!limes From: limes@sun.com (Greg Limes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: File Sys Hierarchies Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 89 22:08:07 GMT References: <20140@adm.BRL.MIL> <5748@rpi.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 16 In-reply-to: night@pawl.rpi.edu's message of 29 Jun 89 01:15:19 GMT In article <5748@rpi.edu> night@pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin) writes: In article <20140@adm.BRL.MIL> rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes: >Another annoying thing is that the superuser's home directory is `/'. >This make it difficult to have a private bin directory and use the >same .cshrc and .login scripts as my user account. Is there any good reason to leave root's home directory as "/"? Or is this just another convention that's been around so long that no one's bothered to change it? I regularly establish special purpose accounts with UID==0 (i.e. superuser accounts) that have home directories other than "/". Quite useful, actually, and does not seem to cause problems. -- Greg Limes limes@sun.com ...!sun!limes 73327,2473 [chose one]