3.2 User Account management
3.2.1 Switch to the root user
You can use the sudo -s command to switch to the root user. For security reasons, do not
operate all commands as root.
Tips
Click on the link for more information on sudo commands.
https://wiki.debian.org/sudo
Pay attention to
You may get a "permission denied" message when using some pipe or redirect behavior without
root permissions. In this case, you must use 'sudo su -c' instead of '>','<','>>','<<','etc',
etc. You need to include the full command in single quotes.