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minus-squareForester@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoBecause that’s the home of root the su command is used to switch user
minus-squarexthexder@l.sw0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoRoot’s home has been /root on every distro I’ve ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
minus-squareForester@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoConsumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I’m from the RHEL branch
minus-squarekungenlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoBut “/root” has kinda always been the root user’s home directory, not the root directory /.
minus-squareXTL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month 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.