Safely clean old root account?

[Hal Burgiss]

If it were me ...

sudo cp -a /root /tmp/root.save
sudo rm -fr  /root/*

Could be all you need. You might also do a ...

cp -a /tmp/root.save/.bash*  /tmp/root.save/.profile /root

to preserve shell setting stuff.

Just looking at my /root, all the other stuff in /root is generated by one
app or another and probably would get recreated automatically, (eg .gnome
stuff).  If not, its nothing a root user *really* needs anyway.


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:56 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On one of my desktops I had a root account enabled for testing etc. I've
> since disabled access to the account, but the process has left a bunch
> of desktop 'user' type file in /root. Anyone know of a way to safely
> clean /root so it is back to a clean default?
>
> I know that I can renable the root account & log in to the account & do
> some deleting, but is suspect that in the process I may end up borking
> something.
>
>
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Hal
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