Su

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A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

The Unix command su, which stands for "substitute user" (or historically "superuser"), is used by a computer user to execute commands with the privileges of another user account. When executed it invokes a shell without changing the current working directory or the user environment.

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