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Difference Between su Vs sudo and How to Configure sudo in Linux

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Ravi Saive
Mar 20, 2014

Linux System is much secured than any of its counterpart. One of the way to implement security in Linux is the user management policy and user permission. normal users are not authorized to perform any system operations. If a normal user needs to perform any system wide changes he needs to use either ‘su’ or ‘sudo’ command.

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