Elevating Privileges

Learn how to use sudo privileges in the CLI.

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We have complete and total control over all of the files in our home directory. But we don’t have free rein over directories and files across the whole disk. We can do certain things only with superuser privileges. On Linux, Unix, BSD, and macOS systems, this is called the root user. To keep things more secure and prevent accidents, regular user accounts are restricted from modifying things outside their home directories.

Try to create a new directory called /var/website ...