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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!europa.clark.net!netnews.com!entertainment-tonight.ai.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG) 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: 26 May 1997 14:01:33 -0400 Organization: Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 10 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <sz0hgfqm7sy.fsf@sugar-bombs.gnu.ai.mit.edu> 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> <5li53q$gvo@overload.lbl.gov> <danpop.863900568@news.cern.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: sugar-bombs.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45440 comp.os.linux.misc:177062 comp.os.linux.x:62565 alt.os.linux:21587 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3420 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41633 gnu.misc.discuss:31489 comp.unix.solaris:107643 Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes: > In this context, super-user doesn't make any sense at all. If I have two > ordinary accounts on the same system, I can use su to switch between them. > The super-user has nothing to do here. Yes, but the original version of `su' couldn't do that. The original version could only become superuser. Thomas