Cloudera Interview Question

What's the difference between sudo and su?

Interview Answers

Anonymous

Jan 27, 2021

Through questions like this, interviewers are mostly trying to test your skillset (and its relevance to the role) as robustly as possible, so be prepared for multiple offshoots and followups. It could be a useful exercise to do mocks with friends or colleagues in Cloudera to get a real sense of what the interview is actually like. Alternatively Prepfully has a ton of Cloudera Customer Operations Engineer experts who provide mock interviews for a pretty reasonable amount. prepfully.com/practice-interviews

Anonymous

Sep 18, 2017

su actually logs you in as the root user, and requires the root user's password. sudo will just run a single command with the root privileges, and doesn't require root user's password

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