Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:38:28 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: lewiz <purple@lewiz.info>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ``root''? Message-ID: <20021104233706.I35007-100000@voo.doo.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021104161952.01125110@mail.sage-one.net>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, at 16:19 [=GMT-0600], Jack L. Stone wrote: > >> Root of the user tree. Root of all users. Root of the machine. > >> > >> Tradition. > > > >Maybe I was reading into it just a bit too deep then... ;) > > I always related it to "running as root" which has "root" access to the > "root" of the system, or the "root of the tree".... etc.... root = "GOD" of > the system. Naturally it means 'penis'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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