James Mckenzie: > I did not state /root but rather the base root directory '/'. > Anything else would be ok in my book from a security standpoint. Sorry, I misread your prior post. I don't know why I didn't notice the brackets where you wrote: / (root) > Most folks just install using the defaults and some systems default to > root's home being the base root directory and not /root or /home/root. I've never seen that, what distro does that? Geez, what a bad idea! Over the years I've tried Red Hat Linux, Fedora, CentOS, one of the BSDs, DeliLinux, Mandrake, Suse, Caldera, and Ubuntu. Might have forget one or two more. None of them did. -- [tim@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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines