Substitute-User or Super-User ?

Larry Jones scjones at thor.UUCP
Thu Jan 31 10:42:46 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jan29.182919.24062 at dg-rtp.dg.com>, goudreau at larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes:
> The "substitute user" phrase might be Berkeley-derived; both the
> 4.2 and 4.3 BSD man pages summarize the command as "su -- substitute
> user id temporarily".
> 
> Anyone know what the v6 or v7 man pages said?

My v7 man page says "substitute user id temporarily".
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