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Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

>legalois <legalois@acm.org> writes:
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>>But that does not explain when, how or why?
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>It was earlier than 20'jun'93, the oldest master.passwd in CVS
>which says that it was imported from "386BSD 0.1".
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>It's easier to guess an explanation for this orignal entry:
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>     daemon:*:1:31::0:0:The devil himself:/root:
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>That lasted only 8 months in FreeBSD, and the exorcism was not
>mentioned in the CVS commit message.
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That helps and provides a lead. Based on that provenance, I guess 
Marshall Kirk McCusick would know. (He probably would know, in any case.)
Thanks.