16 Sep
2015
16 Sep
'15
7:50 p.m.
As I was dropping off to sleep last night, I wondered why the superuser
account on Unix is called root.
There's a hierarchy of directories and files beginning at the tree root /.
There's a hierarchy of processes rooted with init. But there's no hierarchy
of users, so why the moniker "root"?
Any ideas?
Cheers, Warren