On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 08:55:09AM +0100, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote: > On 13/06/2019 07:17, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Mihai Popescu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>> ... if no account is provided, root is the default > >> > >> I always considered that su is coming from _s_uper _u_ser. But maybe I > >> am wrong, I am not from old UNIX days. > > > > incorrect. > > > > NAME > > su - substitute user identity > > > > I never noticed this before. It's my favorite bit of *nix trivia that > defies misguided assumptions since I learned that `/etc` is apparently > an initialism for "editible text configuration". > > Andrew
Right... and the perfect match to commonly used "et caetera" is just pure coincidence. Lol.
