Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Curt Welch
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 00:00

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Scooter <brownrc@email.uah.edu> wrote:
> In the couple of books on Linux and Unix that i have read, they have
> refered to su as the Shell User command. It makes sense since the command
> basically opens a shell under another UID.

Stop this!

su stands for Super User.  Period. No matter how much
the other names seem to make sense, they are wrong.

The old version of su was only used to allow someone to
become root (i.e. super user).  It didn't have the option
to switch to other arbitray users.  That's why it was called
su.

Curt Welch
http://CurtWelch.Com/

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From: curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/18
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