In Xubuntu, for security reasons, administrative tasks are confined to users with special privileges. Administrative access is given to individual users, who may use the sudo command to perform administrative tasks. The first user account you created on your system during installation will, by default, have access to sudo. You can restrict and enable sudo access to users with the Users and Groups application (see Chapter 16, Users and Groups for more information).
Apabila anda melancarkan aplikasi yang memerlukan keistimewaan pentadbiran, sudo akan berkehendakkan anda memasukkan katakunci pengguna. Ini demi memastikan tiada aplikasi 'pengganggu' akan merosakkan sistem, dan juga sebagai peringatan bahawa anda akan melancarkan tindakan pentadbiran yang memerlukan anda berhati-hati! Namun begitu, setiap kali anda memasukkan katakunci, sistem akan mengingatinya bagi tempoh 15 minit supaya anda tidak perlu menaipkan berulangkali.
Untuk menggunakan sudo didalam arahan baris, anda hanya perlu menaip "sudo" sebelum arahan yang diingini. Sudo akan menanyakan katakunci selepas itu.
As noted above, sudo will remember your password for a set amount of time, which by default is 15 minutes, but can be changed. This feature was designed to allow users to perform multiple administrative tasks without being asked for a password each time.
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Tip-tip lain menggunakan sudo:
Untuk menggunakan terminal "root", taip "sudo -i" dalam arahan baris.
All of the default graphical configuration tools in Xubuntu already use sudo, so they will prompt you for your password if needed.
For more information on the sudo program and the absence of a root user in Xubuntu, read the sudo page on the Ubuntu wiki.