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nixCraft FAQ Roundup April 27, 2007

last updated April 27, 2007 in FAQ

Recently updated/posted Linux and UNIX FAQ (mostly useful to Linux/UNIX new administrators or users) :

Enjoy!

last updated May 13, 2006 in CentOS, FAQ, FreeBSD, Linux

From my mail bag:

I would like to run few commands such as stop or start web server as a root user. How do I allow a normal user to run these commands as root?

last updated February 23, 2005 in FreeBSD

The superuser is a privileged user with unrestricted access to all files and commands. The superuser has the special UID (user ID) 0. You need to become super user (root) only when tasks need root permissions. Here is how to become a super user:
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