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7.7.1 ‘as_root()’ ¶

‘as_root()’ calls the rest of the arguments as a different user. Unless a $user environment variable is set, it will call the following arguments as the root user. It supports the following programs for privilege escalation with the following order:

1. ‘ssu’
2. ‘sudo’
3. ‘doas’
4. ‘su’

The program called for this operation can be overridden using the $CPT_SU variable.