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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Substitute-User or Super-User ?
Summary: or perhaps Privileged User
Keywords: su, superuser, substitue user, privileged user.
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Date: 1 Feb 91 05:02:15 GMT
References: <16147@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <1991Jan29.182919.24062@dg-rtp.dg.com> <687@chiton.ucsd.edu>
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In article <687@chiton.ucsd.edu> cdl@chiton (Carl Lowenstein) writes:
?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?
?
?Ok, already.  I just went to the back bookshelf and found:

Presumably from the Sixth Edition (V6).

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?
?SU(VIII)			10/31/73			SU(VIII)
?
?NAME
?	su -- become privileged user
?
?SYNOPSIS
?	su
?
?DESCRIPTION
?	Su allows one to become the super-user, who has all sorts of
?	marvelous (and correspondingly dangerous) powers.  . . .
?
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Well, I have a Fifth Edition manual. It has the same date and
the exact text listed above, except that it is in section I, not VIII.

The Preface says the number of installations in "now above 50".
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	Root Boy Jim Cottrell <rbj@uunet.uu.net>
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