From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 29 08:22:23 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 93C0F16A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 08:22:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from wjv.com (user38.net339.fl.sprint-hsd.net [65.40.24.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77BD43D1F for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 08:22:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bv@bilver.wjv.com) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (localhost.wjv.com [127.0.0.1]) by wjv.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1TGMKgT024803 for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:22:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bv@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bv@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1TGMJgW024802 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:22:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bv) Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:22:19 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040229160038.GA36107@psconsult.nl> Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park ReplyTo: bv@wjv.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.61 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on bilver.wjv.com Subject: Re: Final conversion questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bv@wjv.com List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:22:23 -0000 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