I'll have to think a bit before I say it's really bad. I think it's not
a *good* idea, and I almost certainly wouldn't do that.
Immediate problems:
- If you've created seperate partitions for / and /home, you won't
have a root home directory when mounting just the root partition.
This could be somewhat problematic.
- root and normal users typically don't have the same needs for
configurations -- your root .bashrc and path should typically
differ from your standard user account.
- user accounts are more likely to accumulate cruft which could be
annoying, or harmful, used by root. Or simply annoying when root
changes permissions and/or ownership.
- /root is "owned" by the distribution, IIRC. $HOME for a
nonprivileged user is not.
I'd split the home directories.
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:52:20PM -0700, Krzys Majewski (krzys@cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:
> My /root/ is a symlink to /home/krzys. Since it's been this way for
> about a hundred years, I figure it's about time to ask the question:
> is it a really bad idea? -chris
>
> Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:13:59AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > > Debian doesn't put .bash_profile in for root. I want to put one in to
> > > extend root's path. Putting my own .bash_profile means putting in the
> > > path in full, since bash doesn't do roots path if there's a
> > > bash_profile. Is there anything else that would be missed out if I were
> > > to put in a .bash_profile?
> >
> > Try /root/.profile instead. For some reason Bash looks for it in the
> > /root directory.
>
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