Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, May 12 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
>
>>> I don't know if there are more blocker. Oh, and /root is a home
>>> directory; unless we move that, a read only / would affect root
>>> negatively.
>>
>> How so? Only thing I can think of is the bash history. But it is not
>> like we force a read-only /. That is a choice.
>
> it is the principle of the thing. /root is the home directory
> for the root user. Home directories are mutable, programs may store
> configuration files there, as may the user, by themselves. The root
> user should not be more constrained than other users on the machine are;
> making wirking as root irritating, less customizable, and harder does
> not help the end user admin any.
>
> Ideally, we should map /root somewhere persistent, writable, and
> also a location available in single user mode; and there are few
> pleasing solutions that meet that criteria; though less than perfect
> solutions exist.
>
> manoj
You can always (bind) mount something on /root. If you want read-only
/ but can't live with read-only /root then that is the way to
go. Alternatively you can change roots hoomedir or create a toor user
with id 0 and /home/toor or something.
I for my part don't work as root making use of sudo where
required. Never felt a great need to use /root.
MfG
Goswin
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