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Running applications with elevated privileges

Last modified: 24 October 2024

Elevated privileges are roles or permissions for some accounts in your operating system that grant the ability to do more than a standard user. A standard user here means someone that has no administrative privileges in any capacity.

In different operating systems, accounts with elevated privileges can be a root user, a superuser, an administrator, a user with sudo privileges. This user account is usually used for administrative purposes, and typically has the highest access rights on the system. This means it can read and write any files on the system, perform operations as any user, or change system configuration.