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From: tlm@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Teri Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: File Sys Hierarchies
Message-ID: <11450002@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 89 23:16:25 GMT
References: <LIMES.89Jul19150807@ouroborous.wseng.sun.com>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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limes@sun.com (Greg Limes) writes:
>
>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.

I agree - I never set up su accounts to default to "/".  I also don't 
set them up to point to the person's regular home directory.  We use NFS, 
and if there's a problem with the "user" directories, I want the superuser 
to be able to log in anyway.