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On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jonathan Viney wrote:

> You are confusing users with system commands. Root is a user on the 
> system. 'root' itself is a user not a command. To change to the root 
> user run
> 
> su root

You may wish to use a login shell, in which case `su -` will do the
trick. su will default to root if you don't provide a username. 

- -- 
"I know of no technological device at this time that would [prevent
priracy] and if it did exist, it would only be a matter of days before the
[..] manufacturers would have an override piece of equipment on their
machine and you would start from ground zero again."
   -- Jack Valenti, President of the MPAA (1982)
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