Personally I really like the /root thing. But, big but, that's only because I hate all those "/.ghatever" :) files in my root filesystem. And that just because the root user used a browser or some other GUI program.
And that brings me to my main point, why would 'root' ever, ever use a browser, do XxxxOffice, etc. IMHO root should be blocked fom using GNOME or any GUI and only be allowed to do CLI / console access. Which in reality would probably mean that only 'normal' users will login at the the Gnome login prompt and then you can open a terminal and do a 'su'. Which is what Indiana is currently doing, but my guess is that that's because of a bug. I know this would be pretty drastic, and please see this only as a personal "brainstorm". Nothing else!! Just a vent of idea's. And I do have some others that are way, way more drastic. :-) On the topic of the default shell, yep you can make it a question during install. I don't understand why people hate bash, I like it as a user. But for scripting I still use /bin/sh all the time. So my preference would be to go for /bin/sh as the default shell for root and then /bin/bash as the default for 'normal' (who is normal here? :-) users. And for the rest, I see Indiana as a nice pre-pre-pre-release to open up. Which is a good thing!! Why always first discuss things to death and them implement it, instead of first doing a prototype, releasing that and then see what everybody likes or not. No need to become agitated here, it will take some time and good discussion before what is put on the table with Indiana will find its way into production Solaris. This is healthy!! Just my two cents. Willem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I too find /root an extremely poor choice; which part of "root" do > these people not understand? > > Of course, if you then say "but all the window and browser garbage in /?" > > I can only say that I think that /.mozilla should be linked to /dev/*mem > in order to ensure maximum damage when you start a browser or window system > as root. > > Casper > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
