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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> The original meaning of 'su' is 'superuser'. You can find it in Unix
> manuals from the 1970s. 'Substitute user' is a lame back-formation from
> when the command was extended to allow changing effective id's to any
> user and not just root.

i am not in disagreement with this as i used *unix* in it's early form. my early unix
manuals are buried too deep to get to, so i can not quote from them or find when
change came about.

but this is not *unix*,  we are discussing *linux*. in *linux*, the command 'su' is
'substitute user or group'.

in *linux*, 'su' gives a user who knows 'root' password, ability to become _any_user_
or a member of _any_group_. therefore, i again say, command 'su' is not 'super user'.

so if i give command 'su poc' or 'su paul', i do not become a 'superuser'. i simply
become user 'poc' or user 'paul'.

> DOS systems have no concept of user privilege, and hence have no concept
> of superuser. Windows systems do have user privileges but AFAIK they
> don't use the superuser terminology.

*msdos* systems and *ms windows* have very little concept of anything.

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peace out.

tc,hago.

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