Substitute-User or Super-User ?

[Dave Turner]

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?

The UNIX Programmer's Manual Sixth Edition (by Thompson and Ritchie),
May, 1975 says on man page:

	su(VIII)
		su - become privileged user

The UNIX User's Manual Release 3.0 (based on the UPM Seventh Edition),
June, 1980 says on man page:

	su(1)
		su - become super-user or another user


The old manuals were more fun to read. For su in the sixth edition it says:

	"Su allows one to become the super-user, who has all sorts of
	marvelous (and correspondingly dangerous) powers."


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Dave Turner	415/823-2001	{att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!dmturne