> 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. To quote the V7 manual page -su \- substitute user id temporarily So although a lot of people believe su is superuser, they are wrong. Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines