Sodamhan.com

TL;DR

su

Switch shell to another user. More information: https://manned.org/su.

  • Switch to superuser (requires the root password):

su

  • Switch to a given user (requires the user’s password):

su username

  • Switch to a given user and simulate a full login shell:

su - username

  • Execute a command as another user:

su - username -c "command"

This document was created using the contents of the tldr project.