• Forester@pawb.social
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    9 months ago

    Because that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user

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      9 months ago

      But “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory /.

      • TXL@sopuli.xyzBanned from community
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        9 months ago

        It hasn’t. That’s a fairly recent (1990’s) innovation.