bruhduh@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 day agoIt do be like thatlemmy.worldimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1401arrow-down112cross-posted to: linuxmemes@lemmy.worldmemes@lemmy.world
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minus-squareForesterlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-222 hours agoBecause that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user
minus-squarekungen@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·15 hours agoBut “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory /.
minus-squareXTL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 hours agoIt hasn’t. That’s a fairly recent (1990’s) innovation.
minus-squarexthexder@l.sw0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·17 hours agoRoot’s home has been /root on every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Because that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user
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.
Root’s home has been
/root
on every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯