From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 29 09:19:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D6F116A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 09:19:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from phuket.psconsult.nl (ps226.psconsult.nl [213.222.19.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C9B743D1D for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 09:19:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fb-isp@psconsult.nl) Received: from phuket.psconsult.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phuket.psconsult.nl (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1THJY5f037669; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:19:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from fb-isp@psconsult.nl) Received: (from paul@localhost) by phuket.psconsult.nl (8.12.8p2/8.12.8/Submit) id i1THJYC9037668; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:19:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:19:34 +0100 From: Paul Schenkeveld To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040229171934.GA37573@psconsult.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, bv@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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040229162219.GA24725@wjv.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Final conversion questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:19:37 -0000 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