Sorry for a late summary. Thanks to the follwing people: Mike Peppard, Don Werve, Alan Clegg, Jeff Kennedy, Eduardo Sanchez, Alan Reichert, Jordi Vidal, Johnie Stafford, Peter Ondruska, Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr, Adrian Terranova, thetrick@wizard.net,Gabel Martin, Davorin Bengez, Dave Mitchell, Padraig Lennon, Alex J. Avriette & one system administration account Question: What are the implications and advantages to setting the homedirectory to /root and how is it done? Answers: Howto: 1. Create /root and set appropriate accessrights (chmod 0700 /root) 2. Edit /etc/passwd to reflect new homedir 4. Move some files from / to /root Reasons for doing this: 1. Avoid cluttering / with administrators private files 2. Other system users liek daemon,sys etc don't share homedir with root 3. Hide these files from other users 4. When users log in and can't access their homedir, they will get homedir set to /. Gotchas: 1. Make sure /root is on the rootpartition in case of single user boot 2. Check scripts that may break when moving files from / to /root Check crontabscripts Comments: This is a BSD practice and not SVR5 Linux and HPUX does this. Standard on SunOS. Solaris and Tru64 does not. -- Rikard _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Feb 6 07:45:12 2002
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