beesu(1)

📦 version 2.7, in epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

🐝 beesu(1) — bestie's guide to the honey-flavored su 💖

okay so welcome to the beesu manual, aka the User Manuals classic, aka the page you're reading rn 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

beesu — a wrapper for "su" that gives you a graphical interface in Fedora 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

beesu [-P] [-v] [-l] [-m] [-f] [-s] [-c] COMMAND ARGs ...

like. that's the whole vibe. look at her. iconic ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so beesu is a lil wrapper around su(1), and she works together with consolehelper(8) in Fedora to serve you a graphical interface, kinda like gksu but make it honey 🍯

and lowkey the sweetest part? beesu is dedicated to all the friends of honey bees! 🐝💖 no cap, that's literally in the manual.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

here's the whole roster, bestie, every single one, no skipping 🙈

  • --version — shows you the software version and then dips, exit stage left ✌️
  • --print-conf — dumps the contents of the configuration file at you and then bounces 💌
  • -P — do NOT join the ARGs together, keep them separate fr fr
  • -v — verbose output, she's gonna talk 💬
  • -, -l, --login — makes the shell a login shell, main character energy 👑
  • -c COMMAND — hands a single COMMAND over to the shell with -c 🎀
  • -f, --fast — passes -f along to the shell (this one's for csh or tcsh) ⚡
  • -m, --preserve-environment — do NOT reset environment variables, leave them exactly where they are 🙅‍♀️
  • -s SHELL — run SHELL, as in the shell you picked 🐚

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

okay, show-and-tell time, these are the receipts:

beesu - nautilus

that right there starts nautilus as root. slay 🧚

beesu -l -P whoami test

this one will start whoami impersonating the user test — and heads up bestie, it's root's password that gets asked, NOT test's 😭 (ik, ik, read it twice).

and because of the -P switch, all parameters are passed directly to su(1). which means 👉 the command you want to execute has to be single or double quoted together with its arguments. (tho in this particular case, there's literally nothing to quote, so we chill 💀)

🌈 FILES 🌈

  • /etc/beesu.conf — this is the configuration file for beesu 🗂️. what it lets you do is restrict the usage of beesu so it only runs with a specified list of commands. and honestly? that's a protective move, because it may prevent you from running commands that — because of your own mistakes 🙈 — could damage your system. so yeah, she's looking out for you 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so the command name could be literally any command. so bestie, be careful not to type something that could wipe away your system 😭😭 this is not a drill, this is the whole warning.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Bee <http://honeybeenet.altervista.org> 🐝 — yes, that's the whole name. legend behavior.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • su(1) — go read her too, she's the blueprint 💜

and that's the page, bestie!! ✨ this lil manual lives under Linux, dated JUNE 2010 — yeah, she's an elder but she still ate 💅🍯 take care of your system and don't run anything cursed, mwah 💖🐝

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