Re: [SLE] /etc/opt/kde3 ??--followup to su

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 08:22, Brad Shelton wrote:

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 21:31, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Doug McGarrett [06-02-04 20:15]:

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On Wednesday 02 June 2004 17:03, Doug McGarrett wrote:

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On Wednesday 02 June 2004 13:17, Ken Schneider wrote:

to the effect that super user was not the correct name.

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I finally found my copy of "Essential System Administration" (Second edition) by Aileen Frisch (O'Reilly, 1995). Page 5 tells how to become the Superuser.

as: Superuser = root

not as: su = Superuser

That doesn't seem clear to me.

I think what you're trying to say is that the Superuser is root, but that su does NOT mean SuperUser.

Would that be accurate?

(Boy this is gettin' funner).

That is correct. su = substitute user as in su - username will temporarily change you to that user (provided you know that users password). Leave off the username and it attempts to change you root. Superuser has become synonymous with root. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)