From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 7 13:46:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail501.nifty.com (mail501.nifty.com [202.248.37.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EFEB37B44B for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.oikumene.gcd.org by mail501.nifty.com (8.12.3/3.7W-02/25/02) with SMTP id g57KjsD5015116 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 05:45:54 +0900 Received: (qmail 21100 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2002 20:45:53 -0000 Received: from barleycoren.oikumene.gcd.org (hiroo@192.168.0.11) by mail.oikumene.gcd.org with SMTP; 7 Jun 2002 20:45:53 -0000 Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 05:45:53 +0900 Message-ID: <86vg8uvmv2.wl@barleycoren.oikumene.gcd.org> From: Hiroo Ono To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.8.1 (Something) SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.3 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Unebigory=F2mae?=) APEL/10.3 Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello. Let me ask a question. It is very trivial but I have been wondering for a long time. Mr. Charlie Root seems to have root account on so many FreeBSD systems. :) I wonder why the default name for root user in /etc/passwd is `Charlie &' and not John, Jack, Dick, Harry, etc. Can someone explain why (and when) this became the default? Maybe, it is just a common expression in English, but I do not know English so much. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message