[sles-beta] New and additional home for root??

[Klaus Gmeinwieser]

Hi all,

sorry for asking this question in an unclear way...

I was just wondering about the existence of the /home/root directory and
why this is existing anyway? In my opinion /home/root should not (and
never) be existent. /root is home of root and should be. So my question
is, if the existence of /home/root is correct behavior of SLES12 or I
should open a SR for the bug that created the directory

Sorry for confusing...
Rgds
Klaus

Am 14.05.2014 18:23, schrieb Gregory D. Rosenberg:
> Klaus,
>
> Maybe it would make sense to have a soft link from /root and /home/root. This would be beneficial for new users starting out that struggle with the notion that /root is not under /home/root. Of course we all know why and that is to securely isolate it. This probably would not work well when /home was mounted on a different machine or a cluster of machines. So maybe it is a bad suggestion.
>
>
> On May 14, 2014, at 03:43 CDT, Richard Brown <rbrown at suse.de> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 10:38 +0200, Klaus Gmeinwieser wrote:
>>> The original "/root" which is populated with files and also a new
>>> "/home/root" with all of the files from /etc/skel directory.
>>>
>>> I activated "ROOT_USES_LANG" and also I preset the password within my
>>> autoinst.xml file...
>>>
>>> Is this a new "feature" I missed?
>>
>> On my Beta 6 machines, I only have /root and not /home/root - I do not
>> think what you're seeing is intentional.
>>
>> This includes 2 machines which were installed using AutoYaST, however
>> neither used ROOT_USES_LANG so that would be where I suspect this might
>> have been triggered
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Richard
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