On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:40 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > Also root's home directory should NEVER be / (root) but rather > something like /home/root.
Wrong. Bad advice. The following somewhat mitigates that, but you've muddied the water with bad advice in the first place. > I've known of several folks who 'forgot' they were root or had either > sudo'd or su -'d and then issued the famous (or infamous) rm -rf * > wiping out the system or at least destroying critical files. It's fine for root to have /root as the home space. So the "never" word is bad. It's the default location. And your advice may to scare the completely clueless into wrecking their system. It's a bad idea to put it in /home, because /home could be on an unmounted partition, and root may need access to its home space to fix a problem. So if you're going to suggest shift it, don't suggest putting it /home. Certainly not without complete explanation. Moving roots home further into the tree may help against some rm accidents, but it's by no means a foolproof solution. Bad wildcarding choices will get them into the parent directory. And prefixing the path with the slash will destroy "/" contents no matter where they started out working from. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
