Why "root"?

Question

linux

Why exactly "root"? Not "admin"? Not "system"? Not "super"? Interested in the history of the name. Who, when and why?

Answer 1

Extract from Wiki

The name root may have originated because root is the only user account with permission to modify the root directory of a Unix system

Answer 2

Root - root, source, reason, first user in the tree structure.

Answer 3

Option two.
1) The file system is tree-like, it starts from the root, and only the superuser has rights to everything. It seems like very old Unixes, for the superuser there was not even a separate home folder - the root was used.
2) The process tree starts from the kernel of the system (init process), which is run as a superuser (root), which has access to all processes.

Answer 4

just a name. the same name as Aurora Moscow Egypt Land ....
when it was introduced then it took root in culture and remained so.
in Windows it is Administrator.