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The answer to the above question lies in a fact the Security is an illusion. We can have optimal security measures but nothing in the world can guarantee you absolute protections. Logging with a user account Operating System limits the user from doing any changes that are of critical nature. This not only prevents the admin and his infrastructure from intentional malicious activities but also prevents from something that the user might commit un-intentionaly. " Users are considered the weakest link in security "  Hence if a user opens a file or a program that has been embedded  with some hidden stuff that attempts to run in background so as to perform data stealing/thieft/damage to critical processes causing DOS. The behavior of operating system of not allowing the regular user to perform any vital change will come to rescue. Hence it is a mitigation measure taken by admins and security professionals to keep their network safe from viruses, worms and malacious progr...

What is sudo ? ' Sudo ' is a keyword used whenever we wish to do perform a task that is of critical nature. Operating System in Linux has this mechanism to execute a program with elevated privileges. It therefore prevents the hassle of change the account each time you need an elevated privilege. Here is why you should not login with your admin/root account. Sudo is the magic word without which life of every Linux guy is incomplete but for hybrid guys(using both Windows and Linux) it is an enormous amount of pain when you are working on cmd and you don't have sudo. Its time to empower yourself, here are the steps- STEP 1: Download Sudowin from here .The program requires .NET version 2.0, which you can’t download individually. In order to get 2.0, you have to install .NET Framework 3.5 , which include 2.0. STEP 2: Goto Start -> Run -> lusrmgr.msc. You will get this window - STEP 3: Click on Groups, you will get an entry named Sudoers over there, Double-Cl...