Separate /home partition

[Mark]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon at decoulon.ch> wrote:
>
> case a): you have /home on a partition. You could still log in as root and
> cure the problem, say with nc or so - except standard Ubuntu has no root
> user.
>
Well, not exactly, but you need to set a root password to use the root
user directly, which was one of the first things I did after
installing Ubuntu.

> case b): /home is on /, so you can't start any user
>
Yep.

> I have /home on a partition, _and_ i have root :)
> But given that most Ubuntu users won't have root, maybe not using a partition
> for /home does not matter. I'm not sure which of both is "bad systems
> design"...
>
There is also booting to level 1, but that is slightly more advanced
than the "average" system user, I suspect even for Ubuntu.

I like to have root access from a normal (level 5) boot, hence (my)
password for root approach.  I don't use it very often, but my
philosophy is that it's better to have it and not need it than the
reverse.

:-)