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by **michael_m..** » Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:00:00

if anybody can tell me how to change the $HOME of root in Solaris ?
i just checked the .profile file , and found that i just cant find out
where the values of $HOME is ...can anybody help me ?

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by **Joe Durusa** » Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Unless you are running NIS or NIS+, it's in /etc/passwd
for all users. BTW, WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU WANT TO CHANGE IT FOR
THE ROOT ACCOUNT???????

Speaking only for myself,

Joe Durusau

> if anybody can tell me how to change the $HOME of root in Solaris ?
> i just checked the .profile file , and found that i just cant find out
> where the values of $HOME is ...can anybody help me ?

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by **Alcou** » Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Quote:> Unless you are running NIS or NIS+, it's in /etc/passwd
>for all users. BTW, WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU WANT TO CHANGE IT FOR
>THE ROOT ACCOUNT???????

Standard reason is if you want root's .dot files not cluttering up /, but
say some special directory like /root. Some people think it cleaner.

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by **Kurt J. Lanz** » Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> if anybody can tell me how to change the $HOME of root in Solaris ?
> i just checked the .profile file , and found that i just cant find out
> where the values of $HOME is ...can anybody help me ?

I don't expect root to be any different than any other
user in this respect -- change the entry in /etc/passwd.

by **Benoit Mar** » Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Hi

$HOME is the 6th field of the root entry in your /etc/passwd file.

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by **Rev. Don Koo** » Sun, 26 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> if anybody can tell me how to change the $HOME of root in Solaris ?
> i just checked the .profile file , and found that i just cant find out
> where the values of $HOME is ...can anybody help me ?

To be honest, I've never really checked it out. I do notice that a
lot of the responses you've gotten offer to change root's home
directory as oppposed to the value of the "HOME" environment
variable. That of course is just another case of people answering
the question they know the answer to rather than the question that
was asked. I would be curious if anyone knows the mechanism through
which "HOME" is set and how to muck with it to automatically set
"HOME" to something besides what is in the "passwd" file.

Of course if you reset "HOME" in the ".profile" or ".cshrc" file,
it will override the value normally set when you log in.

Don

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by **fina** » Sun, 26 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Rev. Don Kool has said that...
:
:
:>
:> if anybody can tell me how to change the $HOME of root in Solaris ?
:> i just checked the .profile file , and found that i just cant find out
:> where the values of $HOME is ...can anybody help me ?
:
: To be honest, I've never really checked it out. I do notice that a
:lot of the responses you've gotten offer to change root's home
:directory as oppposed to the value of the "HOME" environment
:variable. That of course is just another case of people answering
:the question they know the answer to rather than the question that
:was asked. I would be curious if anyone knows the mechanism through
:which "HOME" is set and how to muck with it to automatically set
:"HOME" to something besides what is in the "passwd" file.
:
: Of course if you reset "HOME" in the ".profile" or ".cshrc" file,
:it will override the value normally set when you log in.
:
:
: Don
:

From man login:

When invoked from the login: prompt, the user may enter
environmental variables after the username. These vari-
ables are entered in the form NAME=VALUE. Not all vari-
ables may be set in the fashion, notably PATH, HOME and
SHELL. Additionally, IFS may be inhibited if the user's
login shell is /bin/sh.

[snip]

Your user and group ID will be set according to their val-
ues in the /etc/passwd file. The value for $HOME, $SHELL,
$PATH, $LOGNAME, and $MAIL are set according to the appro-
priate fields in the password entry. Ulimit, umask and
nice values may also be set according to entries in the
GECOS field.

HTH,
final

by **Rev. Don Koo** » Sun, 26 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> Rev. Don Kool has said that...

> :> if anybody can tell me how to change the $HOME of root in Solaris ?
> :> i just checked the .profile file , and found that i just cant find out
> :> where the values of $HOME is ...can anybody help me ?
> :
> : To be honest, I've never really checked it out. I do notice that a
> :lot of the responses you've gotten offer to change root's home
> :directory as oppposed to the value of the "HOME" environment
> :variable. That of course is just another case of people answering
> :the question they know the answer to rather than the question that
> :was asked. I would be curious if anyone knows the mechanism through
> :which "HOME" is set and how to muck with it to automatically set
> :"HOME" to something besides what is in the "passwd" file.
> :
> : Of course if you reset "HOME" in the ".profile" or ".cshrc" file,
> :it will override the value normally set when you log in.
> From man login:

> When invoked from the login: prompt, the user may enter
> environmental variables after the username. These vari-
> ables are entered in the form NAME=VALUE. Not all vari-
> ables may be set in the fashion, notably PATH, HOME and
> SHELL. Additionally, IFS may be inhibited if the user's
> login shell is /bin/sh.

> [snip]

> Your user and group ID will be set according to their val-
> ues in the /etc/passwd file. The value for $HOME, $SHELL,
> $PATH, $LOGNAME, and $MAIL are set according to the appro-
> priate fields in the password entry. Ulimit, umask and
> nice values may also be set according to entries in the
> GECOS field.

So the question remains; how to get in the middle of this process.

Don

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by **Peter Koc** » Tue, 28 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Hi!

> BTW, WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU WANT TO CHANGE IT FOR
> THE ROOT ACCOUNT???????

Because / is sometimes a really BAD choice.
I'd suggest to use a subdirectory in the
root file system (maybe /root).

Tschuess

Peter

by **Peter Koc** » Tue, 28 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Hi!

> To be honest, I've never really checked it out. I do notice that a
> lot of the responses you've gotten offer to change root's home
> directory as oppposed to the value of the "HOME" environment
> variable. That of course is just another case of people answering
> the question they know the answer to rather than the question that
> was asked. I would be curious if anyone knows the mechanism through
> which "HOME" is set and how to muck with it to automatically set
> "HOME" to something besides what is in the "passwd" file.

RTFS, Don. Or don't you have any sources of some Unix flavour?
Guess what: Get some *BSD or *Linux sources and look trough
that. The general mechanism doesn't differ to the "real"TM Unix.

Tschuess

Peter

by **Rev. Don Koo** » Tue, 28 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> > To be honest, I've never really checked it out. I do notice that a
> > lot of the responses you've gotten offer to change root's home
> > directory as oppposed to the value of the "HOME" environment
> > variable. That of course is just another case of people answering
> > the question they know the answer to rather than the question that
> > was asked. I would be curious if anyone knows the mechanism through
> > which "HOME" is set and how to muck with it to automatically set
> > "HOME" to something besides what is in the "passwd" file.
> RTFS, Don. Or don't you have any sources of some Unix flavour?
> Guess what: Get some *BSD or *Linux sources and look trough
> that. The general mechanism doesn't differ to the "real"TM Unix.

It's not really my question, Pete.

Don

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by **John Riddoc** » Wed, 29 Mar 2000 04:00:00

>> > To be honest, I've never really checked it out. I do notice that a
>> > lot of the responses you've gotten offer to change root's home
>> > directory as oppposed to the value of the "HOME" environment
>> > variable. That of course is just another case of people answering
>> > the question they know the answer to rather than the question that
>> > was asked. I would be curious if anyone knows the mechanism through
>> > which "HOME" is set and how to muck with it to automatically set
>> > "HOME" to something besides what is in the "passwd" file.

>> RTFS, Don. Or don't you have any sources of some Unix flavour?
>> Guess what: Get some *BSD or *Linux sources and look trough
>> that. The general mechanism doesn't differ to the "real"TM Unix.

> It's not really my question, Pete.

Well, the answer to your question is that the 'login' program sets it. In
PAM enabled Unices (eg, Solaris), the PAM module handles that. If you
_really_ feel that having $HOME different from the passwd entry (whether
files, NIS, NIS+ or whatever) is worthwhile, that is the bit you have to
hack. Without sources or PAM, you can't do it easily. Even with sources/PAM,
I doubt it's trivial.

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by **Rev. Don Koo** » Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> >> > To be honest, I've never really checked it out. I do notice that a
> >> > lot of the responses you've gotten offer to change root's home
> >> > directory as oppposed to the value of the "HOME" environment
> >> > variable. That of course is just another case of people answering
> >> > the question they know the answer to rather than the question that
> >> > was asked. I would be curious if anyone knows the mechanism through
> >> > which "HOME" is set and how to muck with it to automatically set
> >> > "HOME" to something besides what is in the "passwd" file.
> >> RTFS, Don. Or don't you have any sources of some Unix flavour?
> >> Guess what: Get some *BSD or *Linux sources and look trough
> >> that. The general mechanism doesn't differ to the "real"TM Unix.
> > It's not really my question, Pete.
> Well, the answer to your question is that the 'login' program sets it. In
> PAM enabled Unices (eg, Solaris), the PAM module handles that. If you
> _really_ feel that having $HOME different from the passwd entry (whether
> files, NIS, NIS+ or whatever) is worthwhile, that is the bit you have to
> hack. Without sources or PAM, you can't do it easily. Even with sources/PAM,
> I doubt it's trivial.

Me either. I thought it an odd question when I first read it. It
is amazing the schemes that people come up with. That's what makes
the world go 'round, I suppose.

Don

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by **Valdis Kletniek** » Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> if anybody can tell me how to change the $HOME of root in Solaris ?
> i just checked the .profile file , and found that i just cant find out
> where the values of $HOME is ...can anybody help me ?

Many have answered various aspects of this question already, but I'll add
one more note:

Resist the temptation to make the home directory /home/root, or anything
like that, which doesn't reside on the root filesystem. Otherwise, Bad
Things can happen if you lose /home or whatever, and are trying to login
to fix the problem.

This is similar to people who set root's login shell to
/usr/local/bin/bash and then wonder why they can't login at
single-user mode, or why some vendor supplied script then blows chunks
(usually because $SHELL doesn't match the shell the script SHOULD have
been invoked with).

Moral: The first like of /etc/passwd looks like it does for a reason.
Be sure you understand the implications before changing. ;)

by **Chris Matter** » Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> > if anybody can tell me how to change the $HOME of root in Solaris ?
> > i just checked the .profile file , and found that i just cant find out
> > where the values of $HOME is ...can anybody help me ?

> Many have answered various aspects of this question already, but I'll add
> one more note:

> Resist the temptation to make the home directory /home/root, or anything
> like that, which doesn't reside on the root filesystem. Otherwise, Bad
> Things can happen if you lose /home or whatever, and are trying to login
> to fix the problem.

Yep, root's home directory needs to be on the root filesystem,
but it doesn't need to be root. I've seen systems that make
root's home directory /root, which is a solution I like.

Chris Mattern

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