Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!palkovic From: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic)) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Support your local PostMaster (was Re: Standard site aliases . . .) Summary: User name 'root' is just a convention Message-ID: <2367@linac.fnal.gov> Date: 3 Oct 90 02:21:44 GMT References: <1990Sep25.120211.3951@news.clarkson.edu> <5624@munnari.oz.au> Reply-To: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic)) Organization: St. Bob's Cathedral of Accelerator Physics Lines: 14 In an article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >Some operating systems don't call their idea of a superuser "root". Under SunOS 4.[01], user ID 0, usually known as root, can have any allowed user name. SunOS is UNIX, right? :-) The user name 'root' is just a convention. Before everyone starts changing the username on their root logins, a warning: lots of things assume that you have to have the user name 'root' in order for them to work (like every installation script I have ever seen). -- John Palkovic (708) 840-3527 tellab5!linac!palkovic, palkovic@linac.fnal.gov University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of Physics Home: johnny%jpmac.UUCP@linac.fnal.gov, tellab5!linac!jpmac!johnny