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.\"	from: @(#)su.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
.\"	$NetBSD: su.1,v 1.36 2003/09/17 05:34:15 atatat Exp $
.\"
.Dd August 20, 2003
.Dt SU 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm su
.Nd substitute user identity
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl Kdflm
.Op Fl c Ar login-class
.Op Ar login Op Ar "shell arguments"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
requests the Kerberos password for
.Ar login
(or for
.Dq Ar login Ns .root ,
if no login is provided), and switches to
that user and group ID after obtaining a Kerberos ticket granting ticket.
A shell is then executed, and any additional
.Ar "shell arguments"
after the login name are passed to the shell.
.Nm
will resort to the local password file to find the password for
.Ar login
if there is a Kerberos error.
If
.Nm
is executed by root, no password is requested and a shell
with the appropriate user ID is executed; no additional Kerberos tickets
are obtained.
.Pp
Alternatively, if the user enters the password "s/key", authentication
will use the S/Key one-time password system as described in
.Xr skey 1 .
S/Key is a Trademark of Bellcore.
.Pp
By default, the environment is unmodified with the exception of
.Ev USER ,
.Ev HOME ,
.Ev SHELL ,
and
.Ev SU_FROM .
.Ev HOME
and
.Ev SHELL
are set to the target login's default values.
.Ev USER
is set to the target login, unless the target login has a user ID of 0,
in which case it is unmodified.
.Ev SU_FROM
is set to the caller's login.
The invoked shell is the target login's.
With the exception of
.Ev SU_FROM
this is the traditional behavior of
.Nm .
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl K
Do not attempt to use Kerberos to authenticate the user.
.It Fl c
Specify a login class.
You may only override the default class if you're already root.
See
.Xr login.conf 5
for details.
.It Fl d
Same as
.Fl l ,
but does not change the current directory.
.It Fl f
If the invoked shell is
.Xr csh 1 ,
this option prevents it from reading the
.Dq Pa .cshrc
file.
If the invoked shell is
.Xr sh 1 ,
or
.Xr ksh 1 ,
this option unsets
.Ev ENV ,
thus preventing the shell from executing the startup file pointed to by
this variable.
.It Fl l
Simulate a full login.
The environment is discarded except for
.Ev HOME ,
.Ev SHELL ,
.Ev PATH ,
.Ev TERM ,
.Ev USER ,
and
.Ev SU_FROM .
.Ev HOME ,
.Ev SHELL ,
and
.Ev SU_FROM
are modified as above.
.Ev USER
is set to the target login.
.Ev PATH
is set to
is set to the path specified in the
.Pa /etc/login.conf
file (or to the default of
.Dq Pa /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/local/bin
).
.Ev TERM
is imported from your current environment.
The invoked shell is the target login's, and
.Nm
will change directory to the target login's home directory.
.It Fl
Same as
.Fl l .
.It Fl m
Leave the environment unmodified.
The invoked shell is your login shell, and no directory changes are made.
As a security precaution, if the target user's shell is a non-standard
shell (as defined by
.Xr getusershell 3 )
and the caller's real uid is
non-zero,
.Nm
will fail.
.El
.Pp
The
.Fl l
and
.Fl m
options are mutually exclusive; the last one specified
overrides any previous ones.
.Pp
Only users in group
.Dq wheel
(normally gid 0),
as listed in
.Pa /etc/group ,
can
.Nm
to
.Dq root ,
unless group wheel does not exist or has no members.
(If you do not want anybody to be able to
.Nm
to
.Dq root ,
make
.Dq root
the only member of group
.Dq wheel ,
which is the default.)
.Pp
For sites with very large user populations, group
.Dq wheel
can contain the names of other groups that will be considered authorized
to
.Nm
to
.Dq root .
.Pp
By default (unless the prompt is reset by a startup file) the super-user
prompt is set to
.Dq Sy \&#
to remind one of its awesome power.
.Sh COMPILATION OPTIONS
Several compilation time options are available that alter the program's
behavior.
These options are:
.Bl -tag -width "SU_INDIRECT_GROUP"
.It SU_GROUP
If defined, it changes the default group that is allowed to become
.Dq root
from
.Dq wheel
to the specified string.
.It SU_ROOTAUTH
If defined, it specifies a group whose members are allowed to become
.Dq root
by supplying their own password instead of the
.Dq root
one.
.It SU_INDIRECT_GROOP
If defined, the
.Ar SU_GROUP
and
.Ar SU_ROOTAUTH
groups are treated as indirect groups.
The group members of those two groups are treated as groups themselves.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Nm
returns the exit status of the executed subshell, or 1 if any error
occurred while switching privileges.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
Environment variables used by
.Nm :
.Bl -tag -width "HOME"
.It Ev HOME
Default home directory of real user ID unless modified as
specified above.
.It Ev PATH
Default search path of real user ID unless modified as specified above.
.It Ev TERM
Provides terminal type which may be retained for the substituted
user ID.
.It Ev USER
The user ID is always the effective ID (the target user ID) after an
.Nm
unless the user ID is 0 (root).
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
To become user username and use the same environment as in original shell, execute:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
su username
.Ed
.Pp
To become user username and use environment as if full login would be performed,
execute:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
su -l username
.Ed
.Pp
When a
.Fl c
option is included
.Em after
the
.Ar login
name it is not a
.Nm
option, because any arguments after the
.Ar login
are passed to the shell.
(See
.Xr csh 1 ,
.Xr ksh 1
or
.Xr sh 1
for details.)
To execute arbitrary command with privileges of user
.Em username ,
execute:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
su username -c "command args"
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr csh 1 ,
.Xr kinit 1 ,
.Xr login 1 ,
.Xr sh 1 ,
.Xr skey 1 ,
.Xr setusercontext 3 ,
.Xr group 5 ,
.Xr login.conf 5 ,
.Xr passwd 5 ,
.Xr environ 7 ,
.Xr kerberos 8
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm
command existed in
.At v5
(and probably earlier).