On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Dave Ihnat <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:11:49PM +0000, g wrote: >> not to argue a point, but. >> >> 'su' is 'substitute user' as you can substitute to *any* 'user' or 'group', >> not just 'root user'. >> you are a 'super user' if you you become 'root' or 'adm'. > > Bzzzt. Wrong answer. Thank you for playing. > > I was at BTL in the very early '80s. Writing kernel mods and drivers > for Unix, and teaching Unix internals to BTL employees. It's always been > "superuser". I don't know where anyone got this lame "substitute user" > stuff, but it's not authentic. > > Cheers, > -- > Dave Ihnat > [email protected] ___
For all intents and purposes the definition has changed over the years, but the practical use remains the same. So, if I'm user joe and do "su - jane", then I'm no becoming 'superuser', I'm [s]witching [u]users and I don't have [s]uper [u]ser privileges. And if I switch to root, it's just another user on steroids --really good ones. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
