bruhduh@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 7 months agoIt do be like thatlemmy.worldimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1458arrow-down114
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minus-squareForester@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-27 months agoBecause that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user
minus-squarexthexder@l.sw0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoRoot’s home has been /root on every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
minus-squareForester@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoConsumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I’m from the RHEL branch
minus-squarekungen@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·7 months agoBut “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory /.
minus-squareTXL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agoIt hasn’t. That’s a fairly recent (1990’s) innovation.
Why’s your
$HOME“/”?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.