Chown ???
Aldo Foot
lunixer at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 16:35:42 UTC 2009
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Dave Ihnat <dihnat at dminet.com> wrote:
> 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 at dminet.com
___
For all intents and purposes the definition has changed over the years, but
the practical use remains the same. So, if I'm user joe and do "su - jane",
then I'm no becoming 'superuser', I'm [s]witching [u]users and I don't have
[s]uper [u]ser privileges. And if I switch to root, it's just another user on
steroids --really good ones.
~af
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