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From: dmturne@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Substitute-User or Super-User ?
Keywords: su, superuser, substitue user.
Message-ID: <6005@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 30 Jan 91 19:38:24 GMT
References: <868@creatures.cs.vt.edu> <1991Jan26.173253.21396@dg-rtp.dg.com> <16147@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <1991Jan29.182919.24062@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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In article <1991Jan29.182919.24062@dg-rtp.dg.com> goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes:
>Anyone know what the v6 or v7 man pages said?

The UNIX Programmer's Manual Sixth Edition (by Thompson and Ritchie),
May, 1975 says on man page:

	su(VIII)
		su - become privileged user

The UNIX User's Manual Release 3.0 (based on the UPM Seventh Edition),
June, 1980 says on man page:

	su(1)
		su - become super-user or another user


The old manuals were more fun to read. For su in the sixth edition it says:

	"Su allows one to become the super-user, who has all sorts of
	marvelous (and correspondingly dangerous) powers."


-- 
Dave Turner	415/823-2001	{att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!dmturne