I have /root/ symlinked to /home/krzys, so my .bashrc et al get sourced by root as well. Should I be worried? I understand the privileged status of root, however, given that 90% of my time on this machine is spent tweaking it (and not writing my thesis), I become root about a hundred million times a day. There is sudo, but my /etc/sudoers is getting pretty long and some things like 'make install' can't really be done with it (I don't want 'make' in my /etc/sudoers). All this means that it's nice for root to have an environment similar to my own, but I'm willing to weigh compelling arguments against that, -chris
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Damian Menscher wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Any opinions on which should go first in the path: > > /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin? > > For a user or for root? > > For a user, definitely put /usr/local/bin first. That way they can get > all of your local customizations for that machine. > > For root, you want to have as little on your path as possible (to avoid > trojans, etc). It is questionable whether /usr/local/bin should be > there at all. Another argument is you don't want to have path problems > in the event /usr/local fails to mount properly and you are forced to > fix the problem as root. > > Damian Menscher > -- > --==## Grad. student & Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- > --==## <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- > --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==-- >
