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3.2 KiB
HTML
187 lines
3.2 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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<HTML
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><TITLE
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>/root</TITLE
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><META
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="Linux Filesystem Hierarchy"
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
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REL="UP"
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TITLE="Linux Filesystem Hierarchy"
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HREF="c23.html"><LINK
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REL="PREVIOUS"
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TITLE="/proc"
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HREF="proc.html"><LINK
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REL="NEXT"
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TITLE="/sbin"
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HREF="sbin.html"></HEAD
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><BODY
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CLASS="sect1"
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BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
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TEXT="#000000"
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LINK="#0000FF"
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VLINK="#840084"
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ALINK="#0000FF"
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><DIV
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CLASS="NAVHEADER"
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SUMMARY="Header navigation table"
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WIDTH="100%"
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BORDER="0"
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CELLSPACING="0"
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><TR
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><TH
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COLSPAN="3"
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ALIGN="center"
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>Linux Filesystem Hierarchy: </TH
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WIDTH="10%"
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ALIGN="left"
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>Prev</A
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><TD
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WIDTH="80%"
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ALIGN="center"
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VALIGN="bottom"
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>Chapter 1. Linux Filesystem Hierarchy</TD
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>Next</A
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ALIGN="LEFT"
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WIDTH="100%"></DIV
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><DIV
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CLASS="sect1"
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><H1
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><A
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NAME="root"
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>1.15. /root</H1
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><P
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> This is the home directory of the System Administrator, 'root'.
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This may be somewhat confusing ('root on root') but in former days,
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'/' was root's home directory (hence the name of the Administrator
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account). To keep things tidier, 'root' got his own home directory.
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Why not in '/home'? Because '/home' is often located on a different
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partition or even on another system and would thus be inaccessible
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to 'root' when - for some reason - only '/' is mounted.
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</P
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> The FSSTND merely states that this is the recommended location for
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the home directory of 'root'. It is left up to the end user to determine
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the home directory of 'root'. However, the FSSTND also says that:
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="screen"
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If the home directory of the root account is not stored on the root
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partition it will be necessary to make certain it will default to
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/ if it can not be located.
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We recommend against using the root account for tasks that can be
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performed as an unprivileged user, and that it be used solely for
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system administration. For this reason, we recommend that subdirectories
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for mail and other applications not appear in the root account's home
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directory, and that mail for administration roles such as root, postmaster,
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and webmaster be forwarded to an appropriate user.
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</PRE
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></FONT
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>
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</P
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ALIGN="left"
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VALIGN="top"
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HREF="proc.html"
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ACCESSKEY="P"
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>Prev</A
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WIDTH="34%"
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ALIGN="center"
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VALIGN="top"
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HREF="index.html"
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>Home</A
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>Next</A
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>/proc</TD
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>Up</A
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>/sbin</TD
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