Re: "SUPER USER"

From: John Claxton <jclaxton_at_email.usps.gov>
Date: 1997/07/16
Message-ID: <01bc9248$550c47a0$38125838@claxtonjr.usps.gov>#1/1

I have only seen "superuser" used in describing the user on a Unix system that had
access to the "root" account. It translated into "that user with sufficient privilege and/or permissions to do anything". The "anything" included deleting files while they were in use, kill other users processes, and generally creating a user-hostile environment. It may well be applied to either SYS or SYSTEM in an Oracle RDBMS, but that's more like calling the President of the United States "The King of America". Sort of the same, but an entirely incorrect title.

A Unix "superuser" is approximately equivalent to SYSTEM on OpenVMS, or anyone who can find the power switch on a PC running DOS/Windoze.

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Russell W. Jacobs <jacobsr_at_j.imap.umich.edu> wrote in article <33B202DF.3244_at_j.imap.umich.edu>...
> Has anyone ever heard the term SUPER USER when applied to Oracle
> applications? If so, please let me know where I can find the definition,

> or the context in which you have used SUPER USER.
>
> Thank you
>
Received on Wed Jul 16 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT