"su" Substitute User, that's a better name for the "su" (command) then "Super User". As "Super User" is therefore a misnomer, if it does not (by default) use the "root" account and can use any account.. In that case "Super User" i.e. "su" is not an account, it is a command tool. For example: if someone needed to get to their home directory for a file while another user is logged in. They could "su bob01" enter the password and have access to their files. Would that be a correct description? Even the man page lacks the "super user" name for the command and uses "Substitute User". Sam. Todd Young wrote: > Yep, your right. > I forgot about using "su" to be another user. > Thanks for the correction. > > gkrueger wrote: > >> You can type "su", you can type "su - ", or you can type "su root" >> (or, for that matter, you can type "su some_user_name" where >> some_user_name is another root user). Any of these will work to log >> you in as root though only "su -" will log you in as root and change >> your working directory to root. >> >> su is also short for "substitute user". Let's say you have a user >> named "bob." You can "su bob" and become "bob" for a little while >> exiting back out when you're done with "bob." >> >> Garrett >> >> Todd Young wrote: >> >>> Uhm, my experience has always been to simply type "su" and then the >>> root password at the password query. I've never typed "su root". I >>> would assume that for most systems, "su" indicates root, as it's >>> short for "super user" which is equivalent to root as far as I know. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list