[rescue] root home directory under solaris-2.6

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Mon Jan 21 11:29:32 CST 2002


On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:25:55PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Umm, that's probably for a good reason.  I recall from WAY back
> when, the fastest way to break SunOS4 is to change root's home
> directory.  Some of those fuckages probably carried forward into
> Solaris2.  I don't remember the specifics though...except for all the
> "r" commands blowing up, and krb4 no longer working...Oh, and I think,
> something to do with cron...

I've been making root's homedir /root since 1996 or so, and never had a
problem..

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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