From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Why root user name?
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:11:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150916201145.GA12717@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150916195039.GA27635@www.oztivo.net>
Warren Toomey scripsit:
> There's a hierarchy of directories and files beginning at the tree root /.
> There's a hierarchy of processes rooted with init. But there's no hierarchy
> of users, so why the moniker "root"?
Either because / was root's home directory (until /root was invented),
or because only root could typically write /. If anybody remembers otherwise,
they are not talking.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
Andrew Watt on Microsoft: Never in the field of human computing has so
much been paid by so many to so few! (pace Winston Churchill)
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2015-09-16 19:50 Warren Toomey
2015-09-16 20:11 ` John Cowan [this message]
2015-09-17 11:14 ` arnold
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