no root passwd debian

[Madison Kelly]

Chris Aitken wrote:
> I read the man page for sudo (really). I'm still confused. Is sudo for 
> doing administrative tasks without becoming root?
> 
> Chris

'sudo' is for running something as another user (not necessarily 
'root'). However, it most often used to run a given task with root 
access and, in absence of a name, 'root' is assumed.

I often use 'sudo' to run 'psql' as the 'postgres' user when accessing 
the DB server, for example.

Madi
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