Sharing Home on separate Partition

[garvinrick4]

When i used to run the sudo flavor along with the yum flavors
would have trouble using Home partition with the yum flavors right out of box
using the Home partition with all logical partitions. Now with GPT
don't really know but i would imagine still trouble. I am going
to install one and see be interesting for me.

[Geoff_Lane]

When i used to run the sudo flavor along with the su flavors
would have trouble using Home partition with the su flavors right out of box
using the Home partition with all logical partitions. Now with GPT
don't really know but i would imagine still trouble. I am going
to install one and see be interesting for me.

Be interested in outcome.

You mention sudo and su flavours? I understand sudo just gives admin rights to same user (provided part of sudo group) whereas su switches user, usually to root so am guessing actually switching users throws up permission issues.

Geoff

[garvinrick4]

I am sorry Geoff_Lane i meant yum's sharing same Home partition not su.

[TheFu]

I am sorry Geoff_Lane i meant yum's sharing same Home partition not su.

Sorry. I don't understand either statement.

Are you talking about package manager differences or whether root logins are enabled by default?

I typically don't use root on any linux, preferring to setup sudoers and make the root password a random 100 characters that I don't record.

Regardless, I disable all remote root logins, unless ssh-keys are used and that is only for backups from a designated backup server's IP. I think backups need to be "pulled", never pushed, for protection against malware.

BTW, both su and sudo can be used to change to other userids, just as easily. I use this all the time when updating php websites.

sudo -u www-data php updater/updater.phar

Though I also use sudo -i when setting up new systems for the first 15 minutes or so.