sudo: Controlled su

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sudo allows authorized users to run commands with superuser (or other users’) privileges. It has extensive logging and solves many system administration problems without giving out unnecessary privileges. sudo is controlled and configured by the /etc/ sudo-ers configuration file. A special editor called visudo is provided to let you edit this file. Correct configuration is essential for sudo. An incorrect configuration might create more problems than solutions. sudo’s compilation-time options are set using GNU autoconf. Therefore, there are options you might want to customize. However, the provided defaults ...

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