Re: RST Command Question - This is a QUIZ! (Answer)

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OS/400 had just been loaded from tape.  We didn't at the moment intend 
to restore 'the world', just IFS stuff. The user was QSECOFR, the only 
active profile on the box.

 - L

CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hm, interesting.
>
> Question: did the user profile you were running the RST command with have a
> home directory?  IIRC, user profiles always have a default directory
> assigned "/home/usrprf/" but did the directory exist?
>
> If not, then the user's current directory was /root.  So you told it to
> restore everything in the root of the IFS.
>
> Charles
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>