[TriLUG] root

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Alan Porter wrote:

> Some guessed that it was because root was the only user 
> who had permission to write to the root directory in the 
> filesystem.

I always assumed it was something like

the root directory in the directory tree is the root of the 
directory tree

the root as in:

the root of all evil

the root of the problem

the root cause

the root of a (mathematical) tree

Joe

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