Re: /root -> /home/kmfahey; /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc

[Kerne Fahey <kmfahey@toast.net>]

Still, questions about David Wright's hands, which might one day hold *my*
Myst book, are unsettling to me:

> Quoting Kerne Fahey (kmfahey@toast.net):
>
> > 1) On my linux box (no other flesh&blood users besides me; it's a laptop),
> > I'm interested in emptying root's home directory, removing it, and making
> > a symbolic link to my home directory, /home/kmfahey . This is for various
> > aesthetic and convenience reasons, mostly so I'm not without my .*rc files
> > when root, and so that 'cd' as root takes me to my home directory. Would
> > this be a horrible mistake? (Would it be or create a security hole, or
> > *really* confuse linux in some way?)
>
> It won't confuse linux (as long as /home/kmfahey is in the same partition as
> /root) but it might confuse you. Why do you want to make logging in as root
> indistinguishable from logging in as yourself? Is this an indication that
> you spend too much time and do too many things as root?

Probably. I don't do anything as root that I couldn't do as kmfahey (like,
read my news or anything), but my system is still in the fledgling stage
(installed it two weeks ago), where I'm still installing and removing packages
and editing configuration files.



> I keep /root as sparse as possible, with a few scripts that are needed to
> work around a problem, or to set up, say, spool files for a new printer.
> Nothing else. And a very sparse .profile/.bashrc.

< nods > Makes sense, really. My only problems are going into vim and getting
left in vi-compatible, going into lynx and being left in novice mode, and all
those other things that I've got rc files against. It's no big deal, really.


Served with a smile,
-- 
Kerne