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How to Run Shell Scripts with Sudo Command in Linux

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Aaron Kili
Oct 30, 2017

Tecmint: sudo is a powerful command line tool that enables a ???permitted user??? to run a command as another user (the superuser by default), as defined by a security policy. On most if not all Linux systems, the security policy is driven by the /etc/sudoers file.

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