In UNIX/Linux, su is the most powerful command that allows you to access the root account or another userās account with their account password. Although you can easily restrict or disable su command access for a specific user with sudo privileges by following the steps
There are tons of reasons to switch to another userās or the root userās account; however, there are multiple ways to do so, which you are going to learn today. Tutorial Details Description Different ways to switch user account Difficulty Level Moderate Root or Sudo
If you are a root user and interested in switching to another user account, you can easily do it without requiring to know their password because you are a penguin. However, if you are the user with sudo privileges and are interested in switching to
If you are wondering what the sudo group is, it is the built-in group in Linux that holds the highest privilege after the root user. Any users assigned to this group have the highest authority over the system, including the ability to install, remove, update
In Linux, we have a root user created by the system administrator and normal users, which are also created by the system administrator. However, root user have more privileges than normal user accounts, which is why we suggest letting other people have normal user accounts
The root account, or root user, has the highest privilege over the system, having complete control over it. They can easily install any program with the highest privilege, create a user account, assign permissions, and give different privileges to usersā accounts. Short History The root
The grep command is used to perform regular expressions to find out strings and patterns from the file that match a regular expression and stream the output to a new file. Tutorial Details Description GlobalĀ RegularĀ ExpressionĀ Print Difficulty Level Low Root or Sudo Privileges No OS Compatibility
You are Arch based users, so I expect that you already know about the Pacman package manager; if not, itās just a built-in command line tool to manage your system packages just like Apt and DNF for Debian and RedHat. Tutorial Details Description Package Manager
