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[Heike C. Zimmerer]

Markus Schönhaber <ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de> writes:

> anthony baldwin:
>
>> There is no root account ~ or /home/root, and thus the confusion.
>
> You're adding to the confusion: 

Indeed.  (The fact that in a default installation, there is no password
for root doesn't mean his account doesn't exist.  Root is not only a
user, but an elementary concept in Unix).

> of cause there *is* a root account. And
> for root "~" will expand to /root, the root user's home directory
> (unless you've seriously fiddled around with the system).

And if you want ~ to expand to another user's home directory than the
current, suffix it by its login name.  E.g., ~sg1/Desktop will expand to
/home/sg1/Desktop if sg1's home directory is there. 

Heike