Understanding Sudo/root access
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What is root?
Root is the superuser or administrator account that has complete control over everything in the machine.
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What is Sudo?
Provides limited super user privileges to specific users. Sudo is a program designed to allow a administator to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
To use it, when you enter commands in the konsole, type sudo in front of the command.
Example:
sudo cp /usr/lib/xyx /root/xyz
It will then prompt you to enter your root password.
You can read more about sudo at wikipedia.
