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It do be like that (lemmy.world)
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[-] Forester@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 4 points 1 week ago
[-] Forester@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Forester@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

I'm on Bazzite and this is how I feel any time I forget that I don't have write permissions for basically that entire partition.

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