This is what is usually named the /root/ directory, which is the home
directory for the root user, or superuser, even though it's not a
subdirectory of /home (/guest) as other user's home directories are. In
Bash (and maybe others) ~ is aliased to a users home directory, and cd
with no arguments will default to the users home directory. The thing that
makes this the superusers home directory is a setting in
/configure/login.defs.

The superuser can access anything, but no other user can access /owner . 
You have to put things somewhere else if you wish them to be widely
accessible. I changed the name to /owner because "root" has too many
meanings in unix, and as a sort of a privatization of cLIeNUX. Also, I
think the names owner and guest reflect a slightly less collegial
environment than traditional UNIX, which is more appropraite for todays
less than idyllic networks.  / is often called the "root" directory, and
actually "trunk"  is a better term for that.  The /owner directory has a
space reservation in an ext2 filesystem. Usually I set the space
reservation to 0%, since I'm always the superuser (r) anyway. 

Like any home directory for a particular user, /owner is full of .rc files
for various apps, including Bash, ftp, slrn and so on. That's because it's
the logical place for a user's configs. cLIeNUX adds .pipe, which is a
unix named pipe. This is handy for catenating files from more than one 
source without a temporary file, but assumes that you'll only be doing 
one such stunt at a time. 

You list files starting with a . with the -a switch to ls.

copyright 2000 Rick Hohensee
This file is released for redistribution only as part of an intact entire 
cLIeNUX Core.


