Hi Patrick, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote on Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 06:59:48PM +0200: > Le Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:06:54 +0300, > Kapetanakis Giannis <bil...@edu.physics.uoc.gr> a icrit :
>> Who is this 'Charlie' guy anyway??? > That is a good question. I've searched in the past looking old system > passwd to find who decided this name for the root account but with no > luck. http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/etc/passwd has "root::0:10:Ernie Co-vax,508JE,0204:/:/bin/csh" on Nov 16, 1980 http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.1cBSD/etc/passwd has "root::0:10:Charlie,458E,7750:/:/bin/csh" on Feb 27, 1983 http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.2BSD/etc/passwd has "root::0:10:Charlie &:/:/bin/csh" on Sep 25, 1983 > Looks like "Charlie &" is a tribute to Charlie Root (a famous baseball > player):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Root No idea. > Does someone remember who, when and why? It looks like it happened in 1981 or 1982 at the CSRG in Berkeley, and Charlie was a person or machine or joke located in office 458, next door to Bill Joy. That's partial information and guesswork, but no wonder, i wasn't there. Bill Joy will probably know; and maybe Eric Allman and Kirk McKusick, who are listed in the 4.1cBSD passwd file as well. The following CD set seems likely to contain more information: http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/ Yours, Ingo
