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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!bowl.news.pipex.net!pipex!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!weld.news.pipex.net!pipex!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.maxwell.syr.edu!stdio!uninett.no!news.uni-c.dk!news.uni-c.dk!news.ehs.dk!172.17.3.47 From: Kent Friis </dev/null@ehs.dk> 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: Fri, 16 May 1997 11:13:02 -0700 Organization: Esbjerg Business College Lines: 28 Message-ID: <337CA3AE.125F@ehs.dk> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnemosyne.ehs.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45048 comp.os.linux.misc:175605 comp.os.linux.x:61729 alt.os.linux:21222 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3269 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41032 gnu.misc.discuss:31306 comp.unix.solaris:106690 Mr Happy... wrote: > > > > > > su = Super User > > > > > > I stand corrected on that one... > > > > > > > Substitute User > > > > > > > > I have heard it to mean "switch user". Maybe I am wrong however... > > > > -- Yan > > > > Clear this up... Substitute User > NAME > su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs "man su" gave this on a digital ultrix 4.4: su - substitute a user ID Kent -- Anti spammer email: use "d5kf" instead of "/dev/null" You haven't seen _multitasking_ until you have seen Doom and Quake run side by side.