Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Dominic Mitchell
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 00:00

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Earlier, Richard Hector <rhector@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> Curt Welch wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Who cares?  I'm sure it stands for Something Useful :-)

Unless you forget your password, in which case it's Sodding Useless.

-Dom
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From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/19
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