The sudo command (short for Super-user do) is program designed to allow users to execute commands with the security privileges of another user, by default the root user.
In this guide we will show you how to create a new user on a Debian system and give it sudo access. You can use this user account to execute administrative commands without a need to logging in to your Debian server as a root user.
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