From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 14:53:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE5737B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:53:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1BA43E3B for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:53:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.lan.honeypot.net (mail@pooh.lan.honeypot.net [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA4MrR0P020755 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:53:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.lan.honeypot.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 188q62-00012d-00 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:53:26 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ``root''? References: <20021104220037.GA1110@lewiz.org> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 04 Nov 2002 16:53:26 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20021104220037.GA1110@lewiz.org> Message-ID: <874raxrlp5.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-11-04T22:00:37Z, lewiz writes: > I've been wondering - what does ``root'' stand for? My understanding is that 'root' is the user that owns the base of the filesystem (the 'root' of the tree structure) and has full access to everything beneath it. Think of root in the 'tree' data structure sense. > This message is intended only for the use of the person(s)... Ummm, think you could pick a different sig for use on mailing lists? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message