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$OpenPAM: su.1 947 2019-02-24 20:18:17Z des $
.Dd February 24, 2019 .Dt SU 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm su .Nd switch user identity .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Ar login Op Ar ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility starts a shell under the identity of the user specified by the first argument on the command line. If no user is specified, the default is .Dq root .
Copyright (c) 2011-2017 Dag-Erling Sm��rgrav
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$OpenPAM: su.1 947 2019-02-24 20:18:17Z des $
.Dd February 24, 2019 .Dt SU 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm su .Nd switch user identity .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Ar login Op Ar ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility starts a shell under the identity of the user specified by the first argument on the command line. If no user is specified, the default is .Dq root .
p Any additional command-line arguments are passed as-is to the shell.
p The requesting user is authenticated using the .Dq su PAM policy. .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES The .Nm utility is provided with the OpenPAM library as a sample application and should not be used in production systems. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr openpam 3 , .Xr pam 3 .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm utility and this manual page were written by .An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq Mt des@des.no .