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Authored by: MasterUltan on Feb 20, '03 09:04:33PM

The su command will work as ANY user, regardless of privilege. If I am logged in as "sam" and wish to execute commands as "joe", I type:

su joe

and then enter the password for the user "joe". No admin privileges necessary, just password knowledge.

I frequently use this command on UNIX-like machines to help friends or perform some tasks when they are logged into the machine. I often su to my account to access a file, for example.



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