On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:13:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > With all due respect, thats bullshit. I will NEVER partition a drive > and put /root as a subdir on /. You mean there are Linux distributions that let you place /root on a different drive than / ? How does root get to his home account if only / succeds mount on boot-up ? Are you sure you're not confusing /root and /home/foobar where foobar is the account of your regular user ? > I don't have such an arrangment in > place on any linux install I have, won't tolerate it. Its senseless > to put your most private business as nothing more secure than a > directory on /. End of discussion IMNSHO. What I do as root, is not > any of the semi-public /'s business, none nada zip. I hate to break this to you but all directories are "a directory on /", to some extent. Whether /root is on the same partition as / or not is not going to change the directory's permissions from 0700 one bit. > So how do I proceed? Use a regular user for your regular activity. Only use root (and his directory) for system maintenance. > /dev/hdb3= primary /root = 4GB But %$#@*& DD won't let me name it > '/root', I'm gonna have to do it by hand. No, you shouldn't. This is a horrible security risk. Set this to be /home, instead. Emmanuel
