Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!dgbt!don
From: don@dgbt.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
Subject: su, superuser, substitute user
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.043401.11943@dgbt.doc.ca>
Sender: don@dgbt.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
Organization: The Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 91 04:34:01 GMT


Personally I have always called it the "switch user" command, with the default
new username being root.

man su on Ultrix reports ...
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<NAME
<	su - substitute a user ID
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... but what do they know :-).

Who really cares what it meant when first it was first given a name
as long as we know how and what to use it for!