You are working on a Linux client. You are trying to run a program but you don’t have the security permissions you need to run it. What command can you use to run that program with the security permission of another user?
The answer is sudo. The sudo (substitute user, do) command allows a user to temporarily use the permissions of another user account to run a command. The other choices are Linux commands but serve different purposes.
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