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sudo centralizes all privilege authorization information in a single configuration file, /etc/sudoers, which contains a list of users and the privileged applications and actions that those users are permitted to use. The grammar of the sudoers file is intended to be flexible enough to cover many different scenarios, such as placing restrictions ...
A privilege is applied for by either an executed program issuing a request for advanced privileges, or by running some program to apply for the additional privileges. An example of a user applying for additional privileges is provided by the sudo command to run a command as superuser user, or by the Kerberos authentication system.
The /etc/sudoers file contains a list of users or user groups with permission to execute a subset of commands while having the privileges of the root user or another specified user. The file is recommended [by whom?] to be edited by using the command sudo visudo. Sudo contains several configuration options such as allowing commands to be run as ...
This was a plain text file with simple key–value pairs (e.g. DEVICEHIGH=C:\\DOS\\ANSI.SYS) until MS-DOS 6, which introduced an INI-file style format. There was also a standard plain text batch file named AUTOEXEC.BAT that ran a series of commands on boot. Both these files were retained up to Windows 98SE, which still ran on top of MS-DOS.
The more command is frequently used in conjunction with this command, e.g. type long-text-file | more. TYPE can be used to concatenate files ( type file1 file2 > file3 ); however this won't work for large files [ dubious – discuss ] [ citation needed ] —use copy command instead.
Users can set a process to run with elevated privileges from standard accounts by setting the process to "run as administrator" or using the runas command and authenticating the prompt with credentials (username and password) of an administrator account. Much of the benefit of authenticating from a standard account is negated if the ...
Far's standard functionality can be greatly extended with macros (written in Lua scripting language, primarily used to record keypress sequences) and plugins.Standard plugins installed by default include FTP, Windows network, extensible archive file support and temporary panel (sandbox) virtual file systems, a process list, print manager, filename case converter, and several editor plugins to ...
Lists the contents of a directory in a standardized machine-readable format. MLST RFC 3659 Provides data about exactly the object named on its command line in a standardized machine-readable format. MODE RFC 959 Sets the transfer mode (Stream, Block, or Compressed). NLST RFC 959 Returns a list of file names in a specified directory. NOOP RFC 959