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

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Fri Apr 12 21:00:26 PDT 2013


>There is not mention of a "root" user anywhere in the paper.

Every version of Unix I ever saw, at least as far back as 1974, had a
root account called "root".

R's,
John



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