Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 00:00

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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

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From: thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/26
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