From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 15:46:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 709263E42 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:43:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12GVaq-0000sJ-00; Thu, 03 Feb 2000 23:23:20 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12GVaq-00017h-00; Thu, 03 Feb 2000 23:23:20 +0000 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 23:23:20 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Harry Woodward-Clarke Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <20000203232320.A4052@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <00ed01bf6df1$c9568620$0200000a@danco.home> <20000203162431.A996@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <3899FC4B.F06876A@S1.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3899FC4B.F06876A@S1.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: > I hope you don't do this often :'/ Only about four machines so far. > If your device with /usr/home goes 'south' and you try to log in as > root... guess what? No home directory for root anymore :'( So? You can still log in. Did you *try* this? You just get a warning, that's all. And even so, there's always single user mode. > Lessons to be learned? 1) leave root's home on the / partition; 2) > don't "dump loads of stuff there". Put it on /tmp if youmust dump it > via the root account. Better still, don't use root for anything othere > than system administration, use a "user" account. Thanks for the advice (although a phrase about teaching grandmothers to suck eggs springs to mind). -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message