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Niggle: "su" from "sudo" is for substitute/switch user in the su command, not "super" at all. By default the user being switched to in su is root/uid:0. There
by tracker1 6mo ago
Niggle: "su" from "sudo" is for substitute/switch user in the su command, not "super" at all. By default the user being switched to in su is root/uid:0.
There's no such thing as "Super User" in context usage.
- steve1977 6mo agoThe historical and original meaning was superuser do and superuser is absolutely a thing in UNIX. See here from the guy who invented it: https://hackaday.com/2014/05/28/interview-inventing-the-unix-sudo-command/ https://hackaday.com/2014/05/28/interview-inventing-the-unix... and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaAwl3HN5ds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaAwl3HN5ds (from around 4:30 minutes... "do a superuser thing") Also the "su" command originally stood for "superuser": https://web.archive.org/web/20220317213155/https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man13.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20220317213155/https://www.bell-... (UNIX manual from 1971) "su allows one to become the super—user, who has all sorts of marvelous powers"