Saturday, April 26, 2014

su

  •  su command examples


Switch to a different user account using su command. Super user can switch to any other user without entering their password.
$ su - USERNAME


Execute a single command from a different account name. In the following example, john can execute the ls command as raj username. Once the command is executed, it will come back to john’s account.
[linux@care-server]$ su - raj -c 'ls' 
[linux@care-server]$


Login to a specified user account, and execute the specified shell instead of the default shell.
$ su -s 'SHELLNAME' USERNAME

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