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, --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 | |
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report su bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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 'su invocation' | |
