SU(1)

💅 su(1) — run a shell or command as another user

okay so welcome to the SU(1) manual, bestie. this one is giving “become another user in the terminal” realness: su runs a shell or command as another user. periodt. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

su — run a shell or command as another user 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

su options [-] [<user> [<argument>...]]

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -c command, --command=command — pass a single command to the shell with -c.
• -g group, --group=group — specify the primary group.
• -G group, --supp-group=group — specify a supplemental group.
• -h, --help — show a help message.
• -, -l, --login — make the shell a login shell.
• -m, -p, --preserve-environment — do not reset environment variables.
• -P, --pty — ignored for backwards compatibility. this version of su always creates a new pseudo-terminal if it is attached to a TTY.
• -w list, --whitelist-environment=list — do not reset the environment variables specified by the list. multiple variables can be separated by commas.
• -s shell, --shell=shell — run shell if /etc/shells allows running as that shell instead of the default shell for the user.
• -V, --version — show the program version.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• sudo(8) — bestie crossover moment 👑

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that’s the whole SU(1) page, no cap. sign-off from the footer: sudo-rs 0.2.15 · SU(1) · no date in the original footer, so we’re keeping it mysterious 🫶✨