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Date:      Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:04:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Donald Burr <dburr@pobox.com>
To:        "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.org>, "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>
Subject:   RE: Dumb question about this list
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990628140433.dburr@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <000601bec1a7$1e515b20$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org>

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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (actually, it was on 28-Jun-99),
the great prophet Christopher J. Michaels once wrote
:
> Mark wrote,
>> On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 03:02:59PM -0500, Paul T. Root wrote:
>                                            ^^^^
> hmm, what happened to charley?
> I can't tell if that's a joke or not, but that's his actual name.  :)

Yup, it's a joke.  The default full name (the stuff that's in the EGCOS
field) of the root user on FreeBSD is "Charlie Root".

[dburr@control:101 ~]% finger root@forbin
[forbin]
Login: root                             Name: Charlie Root
Directory: /root                        Shell: /bin/csh
Last login Tue Jun 15 19:42 (PDT) on ttyv0
No Mail.
No Plan.
[dburr@control:102 ~]%
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