Change root user's home directory in Ubuntu?

Title says it all, how do I change the home directory of the 'root' user in Ubuntu 12.04?

Solution 1:

Here are the instructions, but be sure to know what you're doing.

On every *nix system you'll find a file called /etc/passwd which lists all users and some settings. Here is the syntax of that file:

username:password:uid:gid:additional_info:home:shell

So, for example, you'll find:

root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash

Which means the user is called root, the password is hidden (it's on /etc/shadow), uid is 0, gid is 0, no additional info, the home directory is /root and the default shell is /bin/bash.

Edit that file (I recommend vipw to avoid corruption) and change the home directory.

However, I don't see any reason to do it.