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It do be like that (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

su root

cd ~

chown * root

mv usr/ussr/ usr/gulag/

cd usr/gulag/

touch treason.txt

touch you_and_siberia_and_stalin.txt

chown usr/gulag/ 111

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why's your $HOME "/"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Consumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I'm from the RHEL branch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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