Somehow I made it this far without actually understanding how sudo works. For years, I’ve just typed sudo, typed my password, and revelled in my new, magical, root super powers. The other day and I finally looked into it – to be honest, the mechanism is not at all what I expected. After going through the basics, we’ll walk through creating our own version of sudo. How Sudo Works sudo is just a regular old program that essentially does 3 things: