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It do be like that (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by bruhduh@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] kungen@feddit.nu 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why's your $HOME "/"?

[–] Forester@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But "/root" has kinda always been the root user's home directory, not the root directory /.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Root's home has been /root on every distro I've ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯