[765] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] standard users,groups,perms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fabrizio Giudici)
Mon Jun 10 14:34:10 1996
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 13:16:46 +0200
From: Fabrizio Giudici <fritz@dibe.unige.it>
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Richard Black wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Another is that roots home directory is not the root of the filesystem. This
> is the very first thing we have to fix on any linux installation - its
> complete brain damage. If you have automatic systems installing and updating
> remotely using rsh etc on many different systems some of which have different
> partitioning information and different partitions served r/o from different
> places etc, you must be in a position to be able to use rsh and rdist with
> root-relative paths.
>
I disagree on this. Having a root home directory different than the file
system root is quite useful in my opinion. This prevents from the
proliferation of personalization files (such as .alias, .cshrc, .tcshrc and
so on) or sysadm's own maintenance scripts in /. Putting all this stuff
into /root make things more tidy.
Until some months ago I was administering a network with half a dozen Linux
machines plus some Sun and HP, and I had no problems in writing rsh scripts
to remotely update configuration files. Simply I tailored some features
to the system, selecting with uname. After all, there are *many* relevant
differences among various Unices, even not considering Linux - and we can't
pretend they are not there.
I'd like to know some other people's opinion about this... Apart from
above-mentioned topics, is there any major problem in putting root's home
into /root? I have to say that at that time I created /root directories even
in Sun and HP machines... and they worked fine... ;-)
Ciao.
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