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1 .Dd February 2, 2015
2 .Dt SU 1
3 .Os ubase
4 .Sh NAME
5 .Nm su
6 .Nd run a command with a substitute user and group ID
7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
8 .Nm
9 .Op Fl lp
10 .Op Ar username
11 .Sh DESCRIPTION
12 .Nm
13 allows to run commands with a substitute user and group ID. When called
14 without arguments,
15 .Nm
16 defaults to running an interactive shell as root. For backward compatibility
17 .Nm
18 defaults to not change the current directory and to only set the environment
19 variables
20 .Ev HOME
21 and
22 .Ev SHELL
23 (plus
24 .Ev USER
25 and
26 .Ev LOGNAME
27 if the target
28 .Ar username
29 is not root).
30 .Sh OPTIONS
31 .Bl -tag -width Ds
32 .It Fl l
33 Starts the shell as login shell with an environment similar to a real
34 login.
35 .It Fl p
36 Preserves the whole environment. This option is ignored if the
37 .Fl l
38 option is specified.
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