[ih] What is the origin of the root account?

[Bill Ricker]

On 4/11/2013 1:58 PM, Eduardo A. Suárez wrote:
>
>  this is off-topic, but perhaps anyone can help. What is the origin of
>> the root account in unix?
>>
>
Etymologically, i have always //suspected// that the userid=0 account is
called username='root' because that's the special userid that owns the root
directory '/' also called 'Root', which indeed is the root of the singular
file-system. Unix was peculiar in having *all* files in a single-rooted
tree, not a forest of separate directory trees named by devices.

-- 
Bill
@n1vux bill.n1vux at gmail.com
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