Re: Why root?
Re: Why root?
- Subject: Re: Why root?
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:54:27 +0100
At 12:41 pm -0700 2/8/02, Christopher Nebel wrote:
(What do you mean "BBEdit takes you to the user directory"? How can
you tell?)
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
By typing 'ls' in a new BBEdit shell window, hitting the enter key
and getting a list of items in my user directory, precisely as
happens in the Terminal window.
Or by typing 'set' ditto.
If a user didn't have read permission for /, they'd get an empty
result, because "ls" returns 0
Quite so, but why should you take everybody to a directory that
nobody's expecting to end up in? I log in to the system as jd, so I
expect to be taken to users/jd. I'm no unix-head but from the little
I have read, that's what a unix head would expect.
And if in BBEdit I type 'sh<ENTER>' before I type 'set<ENTER>' I get
this in the list:
PWD=/Users/jd
so what am I to make of your statement that
the "sh" process that it invokes, inherits the working directory of
its parent, and the Finder launches everything with a working
directory of "/".
and in a new Terminal window;
Welcome to Darwin!
[localhost:~] jd% sh
localhost% PWD
/Users/jd
localhost% pwd
/Users/jd
localhost%
JD
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