Re: Changing home for root


Laurenz Albe wrote:

> If you think you can reduce the danger in carelessly using the root
> account by having /root on a seperate file system, you are wrong.

The point is not carelessly using the root account . The point is not
to fill the '/' by accident.
Like i said: Its pretty easy to do this if you are using smitty, websm
( with java ) and others.
And the risk not to be able to mount /root for the root user during
maintenance mode is not really an argument because the some argument
could be used for any other filesystem.

regards
Hajo

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