On Saturday 05 October 2002 11:35 am, you wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 00:00, Todd Lyons wrote: > > PlugHead wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:33:20PM -0400 : > > > > Why must /root be on the same file system as / ? > > > > > > Just a guess, but... If there was a problem mounting your /root > > > partition, at boot time, wouldn't you be screwed--because you wouldn't > > > be able to log in as root... (?) > > > > In single user mode, / is your home dir, so I don't think that's it. > > > > In reality, I think the answer is more along the lines of "to protect > > you from yourself." A new user won't know any better than to run as > > root all the time because "more stuff works when I run as root." And if > > you say that never happens, we're dealing with a guy right now who has > > that exact problem. Anyway, if you always do things as root, you also > > can always screw things up with one slip of the space bar. > > I agree. However I Dont run EVERYTHING as root nor am I a new user. Also > being an IT Manager I DO occasionally su to root and ssh into my > company's machines as root to do admin stuff so I really would not want > to blast away my ssh keys nor my root env. hmmm is it possible to ssh as a user and then su to root? would that not be more secure?
> > Now, having said all that, read the following: > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.1.html > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.2.html > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.3.html > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.13.html > > > > If you have not read the FHS (Filesystem Heirarchy Standard), it makes > > for good and very illuminating reading, especially when it comes to the > > multiple bin and sbin directories, as well as everything under /usr and > > /var. > > > > Blue skies... Todd > > -- > > ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious > > anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you > > will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. > > Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk
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