jvieir...@sapo.pt wrote: > >In the Debian tutorials, somewhere in the Debian file system[1] page >it states: âWhen you refer to root directory it means you talk about >the root of the file system: â/â. This is different from the home >directory for the root user: â/rootâ.â > >The use of the same term with different meanings (ârootâ, in the case) >in general makes things getting confused for those non familiar with >the matter. > >Would it be feasible to change the name of the /root directory to sort >out the confusion? It could be renamed as /adm, for instance.
Feel free to do that on your systems - just change the location of the home directory for root in /etc/passwd. The default on GNU/Linux systems has been /root for many years, and I don't see it changing. This is already different from some older Unix tradition - some systems simply used / for the root user home directory too, but thankfully that died a long time ago. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.
