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

[esuarez at fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar (Eduardo A. Suárez)]

the manuals I have read refers to super-user not to root, but you are right!
http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/Setup/v6_setup.html

Quoting Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>:

>     > From: <esuarez at fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar>
>
>     > I could imagine that "root" is the brainchild of Sun.
>
> Ah, no.
>
>> From my old hardcopy of "Setting Up Unix - Sixth Edition", on page   
>> 3, we find:
>
>   "The only valid user names are 'root' and 'bin'. The root is the   
> super-user"
>
> My copy is not dated, but I imagine it's circa 1976 or so.
>
> But my guess is the name goes back much further than than (in terms of Unix
> versions) - probably to when the added accounts (not sure which version of
> Unix that was at).
>
> 	Noel
>



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