Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 00:00

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In <5li53q$gvo@overload.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb1.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:

>The SunOs 4.1.3 "man 1 su" has "super-user":
>
>SU(1V)                   USER COMMANDS                     SU(1V)
>
>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.

Dan
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From: Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/17
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