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Get Permission from Your Peers with Sudo

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I’m certain that most sysadmins have encountered a scenario in the past where it’s become important to give a user access to an otherwise privileged resources on a server without giving them superuser access. And if you’re an Ubuntu user, you will already be relatively used to the process of elevating your privileges to that of a superuser, all without directly typing su -.

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Binnie, C. (2016). Get Permission from Your Peers with Sudo. In: Practical Linux Topics. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1772-6_13

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