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 dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
