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su (will change user to root)

sudo command (will run command as root)

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You can obtain root permissions in Linux by using the "sudo" command before executing a command that requires elevated privileges. This allows you to temporarily act as the root user to perform administrative tasks. Alternatively, you can switch to the root user using the "su" command by entering the root user's password.

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What do you understand from file permissions?

@Linux : for an example : for a file named " lastlog " Here are its permissions : -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29492 Dec 1 15:12 lastlog Which means-- here( r )stands for -----Read (w)stands for -----Write and (x)stands for -----Execute Permissions respectively In Detail: User has rw- Permissions(read,write permissions and no execute permission) Group has r-- Permissions and Others have r-- Permissions for the file lastlog* . Extra info : root root ----Means that it is owned by root user(first root) and it belongs to group root (second root). Hope it helped.


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How do you restart from a terminal in Linux?

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