Lil' Linux Lesson - Sudo for beginners!

Ever want to know a little about sudo, the Linux/Unix command to elevate user privileges?

Well, finally, here's a little video for you! This is the first installment in my new series, "Lil' Linux Lessons"! These bite-sized videos are designed to be short introductions to a complex topic for Linux beginners.

And if you want to help me make more Linux content:

Chapters:

00:00 - What is "root" anyway?
01:34 - Introducing sudo!
02:23 - How to use sudo
03:28 - A bit of advanced sudo concepts
04:34 - Sudo Summary

#linux #terminal #commandline

[VeronicaExplains]

Want to help me decide the next "Lil` Linux Lesson" topic? I'll be putting a poll out to Patrons before doing the next one, so make sure to check that out- it's a great way to help support the channel. And thank you!

[happysprollie]

I like this short form. Great for filling an idle 5 minutes.

[markbenedict]

I saw on the right side of the screen that you are teaching yourself machine language. Good for you. My first machine language programming experience was on a Univac mainframe back in 1974. Most fun I've ever had on a computer to this day.

[burning_KFC]

As always writing a comment to support the channel

[ignabelitzky]

A little tip that i didn't know a few months ago...
If you type a command like "cd /etc/sudoers.d/" and press enter but you forgot about sudo...
You can type "sudo !!" press enter and !! replace the last typed command... hope it helps someone!

[srivathsannayak]

The Lil' Linux Lesson is a great format!
I would definitely watch more videos like these.

That being said, the in-depth, longer videos/reviews are dope too (I use Arch btw)

[paulg]

0:37 The high quality graphics are what makes the concepts this channel presents understandable

[sherrilltechnology]

Great video Veronica!! Linux is awesome and so are you!

[Xagroth]

A small and great pill of knowledge! If I may add a sugestion (as a non-patreon), SSH is a very important program for most system management, and we can use it to play remotely with a raspberry pi (which is another interesting piece to learn with in itself)

[LadyTink]

I swear, so often, when I first started my linux journey, I would run across a topic that was part of some community debate.
Like Sudo vs Su, and I would not know it was an update, and I would just hear someones aggressive opinion about sudo, and how bad it is.
So while using ubuntu, I would feel like a inferior user.

But now in the last years, I've heard more of the debate, and now I feel like the whole "debates" that occur in linux can be an issue for new users.
It's hard to know who to listen to.

SO far, your channel has been often helpful, and thank you for that :)

[oceanz]

Great as ever Veronica! Thank you for this! I use Omni-OS as a file server (with Napp-it) and a lot of the commands are very similar with Linux... As I fumble through using it, lessons like this are very useful! :) See you in the next one!

[tvsmed]

That guitar riff at the beginning sounds really nice!

[JoanDoe-pqfu]

Intro to package managers would be an apt subject for a lil` Linux lesson topic.

[chischis]

Just recently came across your channel. Super educational and informative. Also love your humour, amazing work!

[happysprollie]

As for other Lil' Linux Lessons - I always forget how to use 'find'.

[travisb]

I love your videos! Great job Veronica!

[tvsmed]

You should do much more of this. Fantastic voice and way of explaining things!

[walterwinnipeg]

Thanks for a very well-explained video! I've just added myself to your subscriber list. And, I really like that T-shirt! Took me about 30 seconds to "get" the colour list reference.

[enkiimuto]

You are incredibly clear on your topics, keep your good work

[Nikolai]

On Debian you gotta install it yourself I've found, also on Debian running "su" doesn't set your path right, so you can't run usermod. You have to enter "su -" instead and then you can run usermod as root.

I'm not sure if this would be a lil lesson, and more of a longer one, but what about a video on apt and dpkg. And how to fix issues like "broken dependencies" and things like that. How to force specific versions of programs or how to package and install a program compiled from source into a .deb file potentially using checkinstall.