At 10:02 AM 1/23/2003 -0500, John Cowan wrote:

Peter T. Daniels scripsit:

> I'd take "sudo" as a Japanese form!

Which merely shows that you are not a native speaker of the Unix dialect
("a language without an army or a navy").  :-)

"Su" is an acronym for "super-user" (most privileged user), so "sudo" is
a command to allow mere mortals to do something as the super-user.

I am a native speaker of Unix and non-native speaker of Japanese - "sudo" does have a Japanese look and feel to it. It is not a Unix command in my repertoire - root all the way here...., and so I had only read it, never heard it pronounced. In my mind's ear, it was always rhyming with the Japanese "judo".

Barry
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