Substitute-User or Super-User ?
Root Boy Jim
rbj at uunet.UU.NET
Fri Feb 1 16:02:15 AEST 1991
In article <687 at chiton.ucsd.edu> cdl at chiton (Carl Lowenstein) writes:
?In article <1991Jan29.182919.24062 at dg-rtp.dg.com> goudreau at 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)
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?NAME
? su -- become privileged user
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?SYNOPSIS
? su
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?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 at uunet.uu.net>
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