From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 15: 2:36 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 5401C37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:02:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelfish.lewiz.org (dialup.212-50-180-115.karoo.KCOM.COM [212.50.180.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA78E43E3B for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:02:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@turtle.lewiz.org) Received: (qmail 36604 invoked by uid 85); 4 Nov 2002 23:02:14 -0000 Received: from lewiz@turtle.lewiz.org by angelfish by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (sophie: 2.10/3.62. spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:SA:0(-4.0/5.0):. Processed in 1.693736 secs); 04 Nov 2002 23:02:14 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.0 required=5.0 Received: from turtle.lewiz.org (192.168.0.9) by angelfish.lewiz.org with SMTP; 4 Nov 2002 23:02:10 -0000 Received: (from lewiz@localhost) by turtle.lewiz.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) id gA4N2FKZ001366; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:02:15 GMT (envelope-from lewiz) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:02:15 +0000 From: lewiz To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ``root''? Message-ID: <20021104230215.GA1322@lewiz.org> References: <20021104220037.GA1110@lewiz.org> <874raxrlp5.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874raxrlp5.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:53:26PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: >=20 > At 2002-11-04T22:00:37Z, lewiz writes: >=20 > > I've been wondering - what does ``root'' stand for? >=20 > 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. >=20 > > This message is intended only for the use of the person(s)... >=20 > Ummm, think you could pick a different sig for use on mailing lists? Ah, yeah, sorry - I replied from the CC: to me so the mutt folder-hook didn't kick in. My bad ;) -lewiz. --=20 Katz' Law: Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9xvx3Itq0KFQv7T8RAl07AJkB+RJ+HT/KhIaY3hbHEUslje+aqACfRXBZ IUEL3q2y7V+yLz76KBZknTQ= =a2DL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message