On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> 
> My view on this is that /root is no different than any other home
> directory. Personally, I prefer to keep them open by default, and people
> who have other opinions can change it explicitly themself.
> 
> /root is no different than any other home directory.
> Treat them all equal, I say.

root is not a normal user, and most of the time he doesn't share personnal
files with others users.
root sometimes needs to save secret temporary files (containing passwords
or something else) and I thing /root might be the good place to put
them.

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