Bill Moran wrote:
>I don't know of anywhere in the FreeBSD base system
>that the term "superuser" is used, so I assume
he'll get a more
>direct answer from the PC-BSD folks.
>
>
Hate to be picky, because I'd agree with most everything
else you wrote,
but superuser, and its synonym super-user, do appear in many
base man
pages, for example the su page shown below. Sometimes it's
a shortcut
for root (or other UID 0 user), like below in su, sometimes
just for
effective UID 0 in general, for example as in mount(8).
> The su utility requests appropriate user
credentials via PAM and
> switches
> to that user ID (the default user is the
superuser). A shell is then
> executed.
I'd contend that the su manpage *should* say root not
superuser, since
root is hardwired as the default. But for other cases, any
user with
UID 0 might work just as well (e.g. toor).
--Alex
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