bruhduh@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoIt do be like thatlemmy.worldimagemessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up1471arrow-down114cross-posted to: memes@lemmy.world
arrow-up1457arrow-down1imageIt do be like thatlemmy.worldbruhduh@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square23linkfedilinkcross-posted to: memes@lemmy.world
minus-squareForester@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-28 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-up4arrow-down1·7 months agoBut “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory /.
minus-squareTXL@sopuli.xyzBanned from communitylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months 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.