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Placing sudo (SuperUser Do) in front of a command in some Linux environments will run the command with the security privileges of the root account. Once the command finishes the privileges will be removed and are not applied to any further commands or applications. (unless they are also run with sudo)
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sudo ( or ) is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the superuser. It originally stood for "superuser do" as the older versions of sudo were designed to run commands only as the superuser. However, the later versions added support for running commands not only as the superuser but also as other (restricted) users, and thus it is also …
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