> From: "Alexander Hall" <alexan...@beard.se> > To: "Jason McIntyre" <j...@kerhand.co.uk>, "misc" <misc@openbsd.org> > Cc: "Ingo Schwarze" <schwa...@usta.de> > Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2016 4:15:10 AM > Subject: Re: man pages diff
> On April 7, 2016 10:40:24 PM GMT+02:00, Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> > wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 10:13:02PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Jason McIntyre wrote on Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 08:35:52PM +0100: > >> > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 03:15:01PM -0400, Rob Pierce wrote: > >> >> Change "super user" to "superuser". > >> > hmm. you have the weight of the man pages behind you, since they > >> > overwhelmingly use "superuser". > >> In that case, ... > >> > the trouble is, i don;t think "super > >> > user" is wrong, and i'm reluctant to do this... I just noticed this in afterboot.1 under the "Root password" section: "Note that throughout the documentation, the term "superuser" is a synonym for the root user." Rob
