And root means complete control of the kernel?

`sudo` means: execute the following command as root. (it means "superuser do", because before sudo we only had `su` - "superuser", without the... do)

```console
opti@server:~$ id -a
uid=1000(opti) gid=1000(opti) groups=1000(opti)

opti@server:~$ sudo id -a
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
```

optimism

"oh shit root just counted the characters in my private key"

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> "oh shit root just counted the characters in my private key"


but how? by using sudo

(sorry for dumb questions)