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Bob Johnson wrote: > On 9/11/05, legalois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Root) >>The name of a famous American baseball player (1899-1970) "...gives rise >>to the name used for many "root" system accounts under the UNIX >>operating system.

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Bob Johnson wrote: On 9/11/05, legalois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: legalois wrote: According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Root) The name of a famous American baseball player (1899-1970) "...gives rise to the name used for many "root" system accounts under the UNIX opera

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Charlie? > > There must be some bit of Unix lore or anecdote that explains it. > > I found one answer, but not really an explanation. > According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Root) > The name of a famous American baseball player (1899-1970) "...gives

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Gary W. Swearingen wrote: legalois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But that does not explain when, how or why? It was earlier than 20'jun'93, the oldest master.passwd in CVS which says that it was imported from "386BSD 0.1". It's easier to guess an explanation for this orignal entry:

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legalois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But that does not explain when, how or why? It was earlier than 20'jun'93, the oldest master.passwd in CVS which says that it was imported from "386BSD 0.1". It's easier to guess an explanation for this orignal entry: daemon:*:1:31::0:0:The devil him

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xplains it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I found one answer, but not really an explanation. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wi