On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:03:36PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >John writes the list of cracked passwords in ~/ which would be /root if > >run by the superuser. > > I guess that I have a basic Woody box: > so why `john.pot' is in '/' but not in '/root' ? You are probably talking about John's cronjob. Since it is run by cron, $HOME/something will be /something. See bug #116257 J. --