Linux 101 : Changing users - "su" command -
To start using a different existing account in Linux, we could switch to another user through the below command:
To do the same, but without prompting the user to enter their password, we use:
We switch to a user_name, but we keep our shell profile settings.
To switch to another user, and open a brand new shell under that new user, we use the below:
To give users temporary "root" privileges, we need to add them to a file called "/etc/sudoers" as below.
We enter the command visudo under the root user which will open an editor, so we could modify the file "/etc/sudoers".
To give a user root privileges, we add the following:
To give a user the right to run a "priviliged" command, we add the line:
To be able to execute a command with root privileges, we use the below:
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