bruhduh@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 days agoIt do be like thatlemmy.worldimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1448arrow-down113cross-posted to: linuxmemes@lemmy.worldmemes@lemmy.world
arrow-up1435arrow-down1imageIt do be like thatlemmy.worldbruhduh@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 days agomessage-square22fedilinkcross-posted to: linuxmemes@lemmy.worldmemes@lemmy.world
minus-squareForester@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoBecause that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user
minus-squarexthexder@l.sw0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoRoot’s home has been /root on every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
minus-squareForester@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-220 hours agoConsumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I’m from the RHEL branch
minus-squarekungen@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days agoBut “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory /.
minus-squareXTL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoIt hasn’t. That’s a fairly recent (1990’s) innovation.
Because that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user
Root’s home has been
/rooton every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Consumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I’m from the RHEL branch
But “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory
/.It hasn’t. That’s a fairly recent (1990’s) innovation.