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#! rnews 1900 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!128.135.181.132!uchinews!cbgw2.lucent.com!cbgw1.lucent.com!newshub.netnews.att.com!news From: Allen Kirby <akirby@att.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:32:27 -0400 Organization: AT&T - ITS Production Services Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <337B106B.4021@att.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <Pine.LNX.3.95.970515180937.229A-100000@itclub.mur.csu.edu.au> Reply-To: akirby@att.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.20.25.* Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) To: "Mr Happy..." <crucible@itclub.mur.csu.edu.au> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44986 comp.os.linux.misc:175393 comp.os.linux.x:61608 alt.os.linux:21168 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3238 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40939 gnu.misc.discuss:31276 comp.unix.solaris:106570 Mr Happy... wrote: <snip> > > Clear this up... Substitute User > NAME > su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs > <snip> All that means is that the person who wrote the gnu man page thought it meant 'substitute'. The solaris man page doesn't say one way or another. I think the answer is 'switch user'. -- --- Allen Kirby AT&T ITS Production Services akirby@att.com Alpharetta, GA.