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Subject: Re: RE: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
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Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 14:18:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 14:18:48 1987
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In article <16550@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>> su      from Substitute User
>WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.  This is a perversion of the acronym from
>when it was expanded to take a user name as an argument.  Original
>unix manuals list it as "become SuperUser"

I've personally prefered a friend's mis-interpretation of "su" as "Step Up".
He was a neophyte administrator with access to root priviledges -- a scary
thought, indeed!

Jon
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