8-Controlling System Processes
- for this, run as an administrative account
- System Administrator
- root account
- unlimited power, above permissions
- GOD, as far as the computer is concerned
- The Administrator password gives a process permission to temporarily run as root
- sudo
- prefix a command with sudo to run that command as root
- will ask for password, put in the Administrator password
- whoami
- tells you your username
- sudo whoami
- after you enter in the password, it should tell you: root
- Working with sudo
- BE CAREFUL
- respect other users' privacy
- 15 minute timeout
- sudo shutdown -r now
- restarts the system immediately
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