File Sys Hierarchies

[Teri Miller]

limes at sun.com (Greg Limes) writes:
>
>I regularly establish special purpose accounts with UID==0 (i.e.
>superuser accounts) that have home directories other than "/". Quite
>useful, actually, and does not seem to cause problems.

I agree - I never set up su accounts to default to "/".  I also don't 
set them up to point to the person's regular home directory.  We use NFS, 
and if there's a problem with the "user" directories, I want the superuser 
to be able to log in anyway.