Survey of Operating Systems, 5e
Survey of Operating Systems, 5e
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ISBN: 9781259618635
Author: Jane Holcombe, Charles Holcombe
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 8, Problem 12MCQ

What command can you use at the CLI to temporarily borrow the privileges of the most powerful account in a Linux system?

  1. a. sudo
  2. b. root
  3. c. rm
  4. d. switch users
  5. e. chmod
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