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Authored by: Vanishing on Jul 25, '02 11:40:26AM

gee, and all those years I've been playing with linux i thought su meant SuperUser.

Now, suddenly it's got a new term definition (2 of 'em!)

Why doesn't anyone tell me about these things?



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that's because
Authored by: spartan on Jul 25, '02 10:13:34PM

You may have been using Linux for years, but you've never tried to su to a normal user account
from either root or any normal user account? This is why the "accepted" definition (I know, it's
in the manpage) of calling it SuperUser isn't always accepted among oldguard unix geeks. It was
introduced to me as Switch User. Entering any name works of course, but none will default to
the root account. BSD way of things is better IMHO, and has been sudo for some time now (and
I am aware that Linux has been including it as well for a few years too).



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