[PLUG] Newbie Question - Root Exposed

wes plug at the-wes.com
Tue Dec 23 21:48:21 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:42 PM, chris (fool) mccraw <gently at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 13:28, wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
>
> > /root is simply a home directory for the root user. It is not necessarily
> a
> > problem if it is empty, though it would be kind of odd.
>
> not necessarily.  /root ships empty (well, empty of non-dotfiles at
> least) on ubuntu and there's no way files would end up in there unless
> someone put some effort into it, since there is no way to login as
> root by default.
>

That's why I said "kind of" - making no assumptions about distros or
previous usage, and given my past experience, I would be surprised if I
logged into a system and found nothing in /root.

-wes



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