[rescue] root home directory under solaris-2.6

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Jan 21 11:31:51 CST 2002


On January 21, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 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..

  Under SunOS4?

-- 
Dave McGuire
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