Re: tlug: Question

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Ken Harada wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I read an explanation before, that root user's home was
> in /home/root in earlier system, but in this case if the 
> /home cannot be mounted due to serious trouble, root user 
> cannot get his/her home.  So, the home for root is separately 
> arranged in /root.  I don't know how the Solaris' philolophy is.
> 
> Regards,
> Ken

That explains one of my initial frustrations with Solaris, when I logged
in and thought, "This stupid installer didn't make a /root dir, how
lame!"... it's a feature, not a bug, right? :)

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