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su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs
su [OPTION]...
[-] [USER [ARG]...]
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
- -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.
Written by David MacKenzie.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2008
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.
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 ’su invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.
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