Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Aside: I find it interesting that there is a GNU coreutils su(1) but 
> not a login(1), and also that it is su(1) not su(1M) (and lives in 
> /usr/bin not /usr/sbin).
Its because su is a utility designed to let joe-user (that's me!) become 
the trusted user.  joe-user isn't expected to
have /usr/sbin on the PATH. (I'm not sure this accounts for the (1)/(1M) 
bit.)

- jek3


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