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Faisal Julaidan
13,944 PointsWhat is sudo?
I am quite carious about what actually sudo is? why we would need it in our code to implement some commands such as chown or adduser
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Vittorio Somaschini
33,371 PointsHello Faisal.
It stands for superuser do (I think). It basically allows you to run commands with superuser privileges when it is needed, like installing packages system-wise. You want to be careful using a sudo command though, as it is a powerful feature.
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ywang04
6,762 Pointssudo - run a command as the super user without root password.
This will be introduced in the next video. :)
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,859 PointsJason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,859 PointsYep, that's what it stands for. :)