Editing Su (Unix) (section)

== History ==
The command {{mono|su}}, including the [[Unix permissions]] system and the [[setuid]] system call, was part of [[Version 1 Unix]]. Encrypted passwords appeared in [[Version 3 Unix|Version 3]].<ref name="reader">{{cite tech report
 | first1      = M. D.
 | last1       = McIlroy
 | authorlink1 = Doug McIlroy
 | year        = 1987
 | url         = https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf
 | title       = A Research Unix reader: offticles annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986
 | series      = CSTR
 | number      = 139
 | institution = Bell Labs}}</ref> The command is available as a separate package for [[Microsoft Windows]] as part of the [[UnxUtils]] collection of [[Native (computing)|native]] [[Windows API|Win32]] [[porting|ports]] of common GNU Unix-like utilities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/|title=Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities|website=unxutils.sourceforge.net}}</ref>

The {{mono|su}} command was removed from [[GNU_Core_Utilities|GNU coreutils]] as of release 8.18 (2012-08-12)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/NEWS|title=NEWS|website=[[GitHub]] |date=17 September 2022 }}</ref> and is currently included in the [[util-linux]] package.