[X-Unix] pronouncing "sudo"

[Larry Helms]

>From the Utilities home... Intro page:  http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/intro.html

Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or
groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while
logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis, it
is not a replacement for the shell. It's features include...

Using the logic above (superuser do) - it would be 'soo doo' - you wouldn't
say 'soop er uu zer doe' would you?  So why would you say 'soo doe'?  And
technically... You're not pretending... You really are executing the command
as the super user at the time of execution.

Larr.

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> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:58:13 -0700
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> Subject: Re: [X-Unix] pronouncing "sudo"
> 
> Since it's "superuser do" then Sue-Due makes a lot of sense, but I always
> assumed this was a pun .. instead of s(etting) u(ser), you're just pretending,
> for a moment, to be someone pseudonymously (I'm sure there's a word in there
> somewhere), without changing whoareu, so to speak. Otherwise 'dosu', 'suno',
> or many other letter combinations, seems more apropos. In other words, even if
> it isn't "pseudo", it ought to be, so that's what it will always be to me.
> 
> The truly curious could probably just ask the authors:
> http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/sudo.html
> but if they say it isn't "pseudo", then they're probably wrong :)
> 
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