SU
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: June 2012
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NAME
su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDsSYNOPSIS
su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...]DESCRIPTION
Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.
- -, -l, --login
- make the shell a login shell
- -c, --command=COMMAND
- pass a single COMMAND to the shell with -c
- --session-command=COMMAND
- pass a single COMMAND to the shell with -c and do not create a new session
- -f, --fast
- pass -f to the shell (for csh or tcsh)
- -m, --preserve-environment
- do not reset environment variables
- -p
- same as -m
- -s, --shell=SHELL
- run SHELL if /etc/shells allows it
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
A mere - implies -l. If USER not given, assume root.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.REPORTING BUGS
Report su bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.orgGNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report su translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for su is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and su programs are properly installed at your site, the command- info coreutils aqsu invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.
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