On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 18:20 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > Also root's home directory should NEVER be / (root) but rather > something like /home/root. > > I've known of several folks who 'forgot' they were root or had > either sudo'd or su -'d and > > then issued the famous (or infamous) rm -rf * wiping out the system > or at least destroying > > critical files. > > I must've missed the email where someone said that "~root" is "/" but > it isn't the Fedora default, older Solaris versions maybe. Back in the mists of time when men were men and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the home directory for "root" was indeed "/", but of course I'm talking about Unix, not Linux. poc -- 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