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.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Dag-Erling Smørgrav
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.\" $Id: su.1 816 2014-09-12 07:50:22Z des $
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.Dd September 12, 2014
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.Dt SU 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm su
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.Nd switch user identity
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Ar login Op Ar ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility starts a shell under the identity of the user specified by the
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first argument on the command line.
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If no user is specified, the default is
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.Dq root .
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.Pp
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Any additional command-line arguments are passed as-is to the shell.
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.Pp
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The requesting user is authenticated using the
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.Dq su
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PAM policy.
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.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
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The
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.Nm
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utility is provided with the OpenPAM library as a sample application
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and should not be used in production systems.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr openpam 3 ,
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.Xr pam 3
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.Sh AUTHORS
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The
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.Nm
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utility and this manual page were written by
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.An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@des.no .
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