Glossary term
What is sudo?
In Apex Flow Academy, "sudo" means: A word you put before a command to run that one command as the administrator, after you give your own password. It is taught in Linux for Absolute Beginners. Related terms include Root, Permission, Pipe and Owner and group. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is sudo?
A word you put before a command to run that one command as the administrator, after you give your own password.
Where is sudo taught?
sudo is defined in Linux for Absolute Beginners.
Which lessons cover sudo?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Linux for Absolute Beginners, lesson 4.1: Users, Groups and sudo
- Linux for Absolute Beginners, lesson 4.4: Owners and Groups: chown and a Web Folder
Which terms are related to sudo?
Next to sudo in the course glossaries: Root, Permission, Pipe, Owner and group, Wildcard, Process, Redirection and Service.
RootPermissionPipeOwner and groupWildcardProcessRedirectionService
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn sudo?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Linux for Absolute Beginners: No Linux or programming experience is needed.