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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!status.gen.nz!news.express.co.nz!actrix.gen.nz!usenet From: Richard Hector <rhector@actrix.gen.nz> 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: Mon, 19 May 1997 22:40:42 +1200 Organization: Actrix Networks Limited Lines: 15 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <33802E2A.79546DDB@actrix.gen.nz> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de><5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com><3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <x6iv0l7uxw.fsf@ez.bts.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.970516130933.5082E-100000@itclub.mur.csu.edu.au> <Pine.OSF.3.95.970518125907.7181A-100000@email.uah.edu> <hbO7$x8@NewsReader.Com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rhector.actrix.gen.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45144 comp.os.linux.misc:175889 comp.os.linux.x:61894 alt.os.linux:21329 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3314 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41145 gnu.misc.discuss:31360 comp.unix.solaris:106826 Curt Welch wrote: > > Stop this! > > su stands for Super User. Period. No matter how much > the other names seem to make sense, they are wrong. > > The old version of su was only used to allow someone to > become root (i.e. super user). It didn't have the option > to switch to other arbitray users. That's why it was called > su. Who cares? I'm sure it stands for Something Useful :-) Richard