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RUNUSER(1)			 User Commands			    RUNUSER(1)

NAME
       runuser - run a command with substitute user and group ID

SYNOPSIS
       runuser [options] -u user command [argument...]

       runuser [options] [-] [ user [argument...]  ]

DESCRIPTION
       runuser	allows	to run commands with substitute user and group ID.  If
       the option -u not given, fallback to su compatible semantic  and	 shell
       is  executed.   The  difference	between the commands runuser and su is
       that runuser does not ask for password (because it may be  executed  by
       root user only) and it uses a different PAM configuration.  The command
       runuser does not have to be installed with suid permissions.

       When called without arguments runuser defaults to running  an  interac‐
       tive shell as root.

       For  backward  compatibility runuser defaults to not change the current
       directory and to only set the  environment  variables  HOME  and	 SHELL
       (plus  USER  and LOGNAME if the target user is not root).  This version
       of runuser uses PAM for session management.

OPTIONS
       -c command, --command=command
	      Pass command to the shell with the -c option.

       --session-command=command
	      Same as -c but do not create a new session (discouraged).

       -f, --fast
	      Pass -f to the shell which may or may not be useful depending on
	      the shell.

       -g, --group=group
	      specify  the primary group, this option is allowed for root user
	      only

       -G, --supp-group=group
	      specify a supplemental group, this option is  allowed  for  root
	      user only

       -, -l, --login
	      Starts the shell as login shell with an environment similar to a
	      real login:

		 o	clears all environment variables except for TERM

		 o	initializes the	 environment  variables	 HOME,	SHELL,
			USER, LOGNAME, PATH

		 o	changes to the target user's home directory

		 o	sets  argv[0] of the shell to '-' in order to make the
			shell a login shell

       -m, -p, --preserve-environment
	      Preserves the whole environment, ie does not  set	 HOME,	SHELL,
	      USER  nor	 LOGNAME.  The option is ignored if the option --login
	      is specified.

       -s SHELL, --shell=SHELL
	      Runs the specified shell instead of the default.	The  shell  to
	      run is selected according to the following rules in order:

		 o	the shell specified with --shell

		 o	The  shell specified in the environment variable SHELL
			if the --preserve-environment option is used.

		 o	the shell listed in the passwd	entry  of  the	target
			user

		 o	/bin/sh

	      If  the  target  user has a restricted shell (i.e. not listed in
	      /etc/shells) the --shell option and the SHELL environment	 vari‐
	      ables are ignored unless the calling user is root.

       --help Display help text and exit.

       --version
	      Display version information and exit.

CONFIG FILES
       runuser	reads  the /etc/default/runuser and /etc/login.defs configura‐
       tion  files.   The  following  configuration  items  are	 relevant  for
       runuser:

       ENV_PATH (string)
	   Defines  the	 PATH  environment  variable  for a regular user.  The
	   default value is /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin.

       ENV_ROOTPATH (string)
       ENV_SUPATH (string)
	   Defines the PATH environment variable for root. The	default	 value
	   is /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin.

       ALWAYS_SET_PATH (boolean)
	   If set to yes and --login and --preserve-environment were not spec‐
	   ified runuser initializes PATH.

EXIT STATUS
       runuser normally returns the exit status of the	command	 it  executed.
       If  the	command	 was killed by a signal, runuser returns the number of
       the signal plus 128.

       Exit status generated by runuser itself:

		 1	Generic error before executing the requested command

		 126	The requested command could not be executed

		 127	The requested command could was not found

FILES
       /etc/pam.d/runuser
			default PAM configuration file
       /etc/pam.d/runuser-l
			PAM configuration file if --login is specified
       /etc/default/runuser
			runuser specific logindef config file
       /etc/login.defs	global logindef config file

SEE ALSO
       pam(8), shells(5), login.defs(5), su(1)

AUTHOR
       Derived from coreutils' su which was based  on  an  implemenation  from
       David MacKenzie and Fedora runuser command from Dan Walsh.

AVAILABILITY
       The  runuser command is part of the util-linux package and is available
       from Linux Kernel  Archive  ⟨ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-
       linux/⟩.

util-linux			  August 2012			    RUNUSER(1)
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