From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com
On 1/22/26 01:56, Nuno Silva wrote:
> On 2026-01-22, Anssi Saari wrote:
>
>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:04:58 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>
>>>> If the emergency includes that /home can not be mounted, then you can
>>>> not login as root, nor as anybody, to correct the issue.
>>>
>>> Most Linux distros put the root home directory as /root, not in /home.
>>
>> Yes and on occasion when /home hasn't been available, I've just been
>> logged in as ordinary user with a note saying something like home
>> directory not available, using / as home. Of course, can't do much when
>> system is in such a state but can login as user or root.
>
> I was wondering what was this about, but even if root's $HOME ends up
> under /home, passwd and shadow are still under /etc, so yes, it should
> still not prevent logging in? Or are we missing some detail here?
>
> (Depending on the system (and whether there is encryption and so on), it
> might also be possible to have a root session without logging in, by
> replacing sysvinit or systemd (well, whatever gets executed as PID 1) by
> a shell. Another approach is to get the disks mounted (possibly taking
> into account encryption) from another system and chroot(1).)
>
Another point is that terminology is confused. "/"(aka root) is the
equivalent to
/system or /C and every system I have been willing to use in the last 20
years has
made "/"(root) and "/home" in separate partitions. Foolish innovaters
as in Canonical
have allowed "/home" to be mounted only in "/"(root) which is to my
ideas of Linux
is practically disgusting. I have used CPM, AmigaOS and Windows XP as
well as
Linux. That leaves out GEOS. C=64 and C64/128 in native mode.
bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2026.01- Linux 6.12.66 pclos1- KDE
Plasma 6.5.5
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