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From the README:
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su2 is a great program for anyone that has anything to do with
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system administration. su2 gives you the ability to masquerade with
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the UID of other users. You use own password to switch. Probably the
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biggest benefit of su2 is that you retain your own customized shell
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environment.
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For the most part, this program is used by system administrators to
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become root, but su2 has been written to enable much more flexibility
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than this. Regular users can put a .su2rc file in their home
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directory to enable other users to become them. While this may sound
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odd, it is sometimes useful to allow a number of users to masquerade
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around with the uid of restricted accounts. One such example of this
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is a 'www' account which is a common occurrence with the proliferation
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of the web. While the www user's password may be starred out to
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disable direct logins, root could put a set of usernames into
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~www/.su2rc to enable these users to 'become' www and do Web
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administration. [This feature can be disabled if you are worried
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about 'account sharing.']
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