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

Subject: [ih] What is the origin of the root account?
From: johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)
Date: 13 Apr 2013 04:00:26 -0000
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>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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