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The sudo Terminal command can be used by administrators to execute commands as a different user (for example, as root). When executing this command, you will be prompted to enter the password for the administrator account you are currently logged in as.
sudo tries to be safe when executing commands. 1  Variables that control how dynamic loading and binding is done can be used to subvert the program that sudo runs. To combat this, some system-specific environment variables are removed from the environment that is passed on to the commands that are executed.