From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 10:10:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E04E14BF9 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:10:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA72316; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:08:49 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:08:49 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Michael Rothenberg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root and other super users In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19991026121412.00728cd8@slider> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Michael Rothenberg wrote: >What exactly is the difference between root and a super user? Everyone says >that I should have an addition user that I log in as to su and then perform >various maint. stuff. Doesnt a su have all the power of root? Or, only the >power that root grants to the wheel group? Confusing. must read more. su means substitute user id. When you 'su' you are 'su'ing to root by default. You may also 'su joe' or 'su ninajo' if those are valid users on your system. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells/ Jason Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message