The sudo
program is a handy tool that allows me as a sysadmin with root access to delegate responsibility for all or a few administrative tasks to other users of the computer as I see fit. It allows me to perform that delegation without compromising the root password and thus maintain a high level of security on the host.
Using sudo to delegate permissions in Linux
By
David Both
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