New installation, have a question about a directory in /home

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

I just installed openSUSE, I originally had SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop, but it seemed dated in terms of packages so I decided to switch to openSUSE.

On a clean install, IE, full format of hard drives, I found that I had an extra directory in /home, now it is /home/linux, I assume this is probably for the livecd, as the user linux does not exist on my system, didn’t check to see if it was a system user.

Would it be safe to remove this directory ?

#2

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

You’re probably find. To get a list of all users on the system in most
cases you can just cat /etc/passwd but a more-proper way is the
following command:

getent passwd

Once you have the output just grep for the user ‘linux’:

getent passwd | grep ‘linux’

Good luck.

danlee ca wrote:
> I just installed openSUSE, I originally had SUSE Enterprise Linux
> Desktop, but it seemed dated in terms of packages so I decided to switch
> to openSUSE.
>
> On a clean install, IE, full format of hard drives, I found that I had
> an extra directory in /home, now it is /home/linux, I assume this is
> probably for the livecd, as the user linux does not exist on my system,
> didn’t check to see if it was a system user.
>
> Would it be safe to remove this directory ?
>
>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFJdBg03s42bA80+9kRAoJYAJ9iC+LXwYw75B+tRpyu7NLYxJj7tQCbBel4
ADKpO2NrdOCjRZT1NuZpLD4=
=Zy4N
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

#3

/home
is then followed by the username you specified during install
so if you called yourself xxxx it would be
/home/xxxx

whatever your user login name is, so if you called yourself ‘linux’ then that is it.

#4

Never used the live cd but it does have a use “linux”.
Best way to delete it is to go to yast > security and users.
Deleting the user will also delete the home folder.

/Geoff

#5

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Of course, a better check may be to see which user owns that
directory… so if you find /home/linux in your output that should show
the user, though not necessarily one named ‘linux’.

Good luck.

ab@novell.com wrote:
> You’re probably find. To get a list of all users on the system in most
> cases you can just cat /etc/passwd but a more-proper way is the
> following command:
>
> getent passwd
>
> Once you have the output just grep for the user ‘linux’:
>
> getent passwd | grep ‘linux’
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
>
>
> danlee ca wrote:
>> I just installed openSUSE, I originally had SUSE Enterprise Linux
>> Desktop, but it seemed dated in terms of packages so I decided to switch
>> to openSUSE.
>
>> On a clean install, IE, full format of hard drives, I found that I had
>> an extra directory in /home, now it is /home/linux, I assume this is
>> probably for the livecd, as the user linux does not exist on my system,
>> didn’t check to see if it was a system user.
>
>> Would it be safe to remove this directory ?
>
>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFJdBhf3s42bA80+9kRAjWhAJ0U0YcEOH96umW4BriOLIVuL2sF/QCfaDAi
3ks12qVdycUuzuUSOCP+85k=
=WJbj
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----