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From: envbvs@epb1.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 16 May 1997 17:22:02 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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Message-ID: <5li53q$gvo@overload.lbl.gov>
References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <Pine.LNX.3.95.970515180937.229A-100000@itclub.mur.csu.edu.au> <337B106B.4021@att.com>
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In article <337B106B.4021@att.com>, Allen Kirby <akirby@att.com> writes:
|> Mr Happy... wrote:
|> <snip>
|> >
|> > Clear this up... Substitute User
|> > NAME
|> > su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs
|> >
|> <snip>
|>
|> All that means is that the person who wrote the gnu man page thought
|> it meant 'substitute'. The solaris man page doesn't say one way or
|> another. I think the answer is 'switch user'.
The SunOs 4.1.3 "man 1 su" has "super-user":
SU(1V) USER COMMANDS SU(1V)
NAME
su - super-user, temporarily switch to a new user ID
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Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
http://www-epb.lbl.gov/BVSmith
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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