Why does "root" own everything?

[terry]

In article <7448 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> Yes, UNIX System V typically has its system software owned by "bin", an
> account with no privileges other than being able to reinstall system
> software.

Except for access to /dev/kmem, thereby providing the capability to
eavesdrop on the input buffer for the console, at least on PC-based systems
where the tty driver for the console writes directly to screen memory!

				terry at wsccs