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Execute commands as another user
Authored by: ComputerX on Feb 20, '03 12:35:15PM

su stands for "substitute user identity".

This is exactly what the utilty is there for.

Most of the time you are changing to root, but you can change to any user (more or less.)

Dan

PS Try "man su" at a command line.



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