On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 13:49, Bob Netherton wrote:
Close enough. man su
NAME su - run a shell with SUBSTITUTE USER and group IDs
I know... means the same thing, but I feel, what the heck, if yer gonna get technical, be correct.
One must always be correct, if given the opportunity :-) Now I don't have an old BSD system handy any more, but I wonder what that ancient tome would say on the subject. Like Jeffrey, I recall switch user rather than what the current manpage suggests. Of course I'm old and the memory isn't what used to be :-) but I don't think I would have made that up.
Bob
When I had my original unix training way back in 1989 the term quoted to me was "switch user". Now with linux being "unix like" some things will be different. I believe this is one of them. Now we are getting way off topic. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)