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Posted May 26th, 2004 in Man Pages (Updated June 15th, 2004)

man page for the unix linux bsd command su

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• AUTHOR
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NAME

su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs

SYNOPSIS

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, --commmand=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.

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.