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    Full name of root account in BSD freebsd historical netbsd openbsd unix geeklan.co.uk
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    abbeyj avatar abbeyj 3 years ago | link

    I feel like those who are young enough might not realize that these are puns based on celebrity names:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Kovacs

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Novak

    combined with

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX

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      lorddimwit avatar lorddimwit 3 years ago | link

      Under BeOS, to provide some compatibility with Unix, files had an owner and a group. The owner of all files user ID 0, whose name was “Baron”

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        dmbaturin avatar dmbaturin 3 years ago | link

        In OpenSolaris, the default username was “jack”. For whatever reason. The never ending source of confusion for all people trying OpenSolaris for the first time.

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          mulander avatar mulander 3 years ago | link

          Similarly, Oracle has a default user of Scott with password Tiger

          In the online Select Star mailing list, the question was asked-Why was Scott’s password ’tiger?? Nearly every response got it right.

          It was Scott’s pet cat called ’tiger?.

          And, who was Scott? His first name was Bruce not Scott. Bruce Scott was employee number #4 at the then Software Development Laboratories that eventually became Oracle. He co-authored and co-architected Oracle V1, V2 & V3.

          For those that do not know, Bruce Scott went on to co-found Gupta Technology (now Centura Software) with Umang Gupta in 1984.Where is he today? He’s the CEO and founder Pointbase, Inc.

          http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_scott_tiger.htm

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        satai avatar satai 3 years ago | link

        Time to change it to Rooty McRootface on my machines ;-)

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          owen avatar owen 3 years ago | link

          surely you mean &y mc&face! (assuming you can double substitute with &)

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            rjc avatar rjc 3 years ago | link 
            # useradd -c "& & & & & & & &" -m buffalo
# finger buffalo | awk '/Name: /'                       
Login: buffalo                          Name: Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo

            ;^)