Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Dr. Borg
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 00:00

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Dan Pop wrote:
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> >NAME
> >     su - super-user, temporarily switch to a new user ID
> 
> 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.

Except maybe the fact that 'su' itself is installed setuid
on many systems, and in the moment you 'su' from one user
to another, 'su' is run under superuser ID.

I am not trying to justify or argue the information in the
quoted man page, just saying that superuser has something
to do here.

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From: "Dr. Borg" <vladQimip@uniQserve.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/17
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