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Development Tools Console Foundations Users and Permissions File Ownership

Faisal Julaidan
Faisal Julaidan
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Posted by Faisal Julaidan
Faisal Julaidan
13,944 Points

What 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
Vittorio Somaschini
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Vittorio Somaschini
Vittorio Somaschini
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Hello 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.

Vitto

ywang04
ywang04
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ywang04
ywang04
6,762 Points

sudo - run a command as the super user without root password.

This will be introduced in the next video. :)