Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 23:23:20 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <20000203232320.A4052@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3899FC4B.F06876A@S1.com> References: <00ed01bf6df1$c9568620$0200000a@danco.home> <20000203162431.A996@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <3899FC4B.F06876A@S1.com>
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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
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