Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:22:19 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Final conversion questions Message-ID: <20040229162219.GA24725@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20040229160038.GA36107@psconsult.nl> References: <20040228191105.M42305@scottah.com> <4040F1A8.1070108@buckhorn.net> <20040228211439.M89441@scottah.com> <404189B9.6040801@buckhorn.net> <20040229160038.GA36107@psconsult.nl>
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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 -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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