Using Sudo

• sudo <linux command>
• You are granted root rights for this command only
• Your account must be root/admin to use sudo
• You will be asked for your password
• sudo [-u username] <linux command>
• You are granted the rights of the user specified
• Your account must have root/admin rights to use sudo
• You will be asked for your password

While the sudo command is available in almost every linux distro, it is not installed by default in all of them. It is installed by default in Ubuntu