Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:19:34 +0100 From: Paul Schenkeveld <fb-isp@psconsult.nl> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Final conversion questions Message-ID: <20040229171934.GA37573@psconsult.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040229162219.GA24725@wjv.com> References: <20040228191105.M42305@scottah.com> <4040F1A8.1070108@buckhorn.net> <20040228211439.M89441@scottah.com> <404189B9.6040801@buckhorn.net> <20040229160038.GA36107@psconsult.nl> <20040229162219.GA24725@wjv.com>
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On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:22:19AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote: > Even though on Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 17:00 Paul Schenkeveld > realized that everything he says should be taken 'cum grano > salis', he unhesitatingly continued with this missive: > > > Hi Scott, Bob, All, > > > PLEASE be VERY CAREFULL with the perl script. The first account > > in /etc/passwd is root with / as its home directory, so everything > > will be chown'd to root. Later they ge chown'd to operator, bin, tty, > > kmem and so on because all these accounts have / as their home dir. > > And in current FreeBSD and Linux root's home directory is /root. > This helps prevent the accidental cd before an rm -r * and only > root's home directory get's nuked and not the system. > > It also keeps / clean with only things that need to be there. > > Just a HedZup on / vs /root Sorry about mentioning root (my ancient SysV background playing games with my mind again), but operator, bin, tty, kmem, news and bind have / as their home dir on a standard FreeBSD 4.9 system which makes things even worse a ultimately every thing that's not owned by a user with another home coming after the last of this list in /etc/passwd (bind on my system) becomes owned by this last one crippling most system services. > -- > Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com Paul Schenkeveld, Consultant PSconsult ICT Services BV
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