Using the VirtualBox Linux guest

The Linux guest is just a regular Linux machine! We have detailed below only a few technical details

Becoming root

Do not use the root account or privileges if you don't really know what you are doing!

Depending on what you need to do:

run a single command with the root access rights
sudo command

become root in a terminal
sudo su -

use the root password when a program asks for it. Be sure the programs has legitimate reasons to ask for the root password!

login as root

Creating a new account

Installing new programs

On the command line

Add here some basic yum and rpm commands...

With the Graphical User Interface

Updating Linux

This is detailed in... the Update section

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