[Wylug-help] Talk request

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Gary Stainburn wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 February 2004 2:21 pm, John Hodrien wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > > 'su' stands for switch user (or super user, doesn't really matter).
> >
> > Ooo, I'd argue it matters.  Otherwise 'su apache' wouldn't make logical
> > sense.
> >
> > jh
>
> Why not? you can do that if you want and it'll work - although apache is
> probably a bad example.
>
> There's nothing to stop me logging in as gary and doing
>
> su dev

Which is why I was arguing it does matter that it stands for switch user,
otherwise that command mean super user dev, which is meaningless.

jh

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