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klogind bug: dosen't accept root instances in /.klogin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
Mon Aug 30 17:00:49 1993
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 16:59:59 EDT
From: eichin@athena.mit.edu ("Mark W. Eichin")
To: ckclark@mit.edu
Cc: linux-dev@athena.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Calvin Clark's message of Mon, 30 Aug 93 16:44:50 EDT <9308302044.AA10147@deathtongue.MIT.EDU>
Is there any distinct advantage to having root's homedir not be /?
That seems awfully bogus to me.
1) not having / clutterred with dotfiles
2) this isn't the first system to do it; it might be more sensible to
ask "why should root's homedir be /" with a small set of answers:
a) fsck might toss ~root into lost+found (response: so what,
root could still log in, fsck could also toss any of the dotfiles too)
b) tradition (well, with the advent of things like /var, a lot
of other traditions have been bitbucketed too.)
3) It has the advantage that that's the way all of the Linux releases
I've looked at were set up, so we'll have an easier time dealing with
user questions if we're aware of it.
I've removed /.klogin to perhaps evade future confusion.
_Mark_
