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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 15:19 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> All distros that I've ever used have /root as the home dir for
> UID=0 (root) and even the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard lists
> it as /root [1].  So if you've never come across the /home/root
> thing before, it can violate the principle of least surprise.
> 
> In addition, using /home/root does suck if /home happens to be
> on NFS, and you are trying to login as root to rescue something.
> 
> Change the default to be "/root" so we are consistent with the
> rest of the world and the standards.  If someone wants /home/root
> to be back compatible with earlier oe-core/yocto builds, they
> can simply set ROOT_HOME themselves in their local.conf file.
> 
> [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ROOTHOMEDIRECTORYFORTHEROOTUSER
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

This is a key decision for OE so it needs to go to the OE-Core list.

Cheers,

Richard