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How do I get permissions to edit system configuration files?

OK so basically i log into Ubuntu sever 12.04 over ssh and i try to copy a file to /etc/init.d/ and it says permission denied i cant edit anything there is there a way to do it.

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^ It's the same as your local machine, you need to sudo when you connect to the machine. – Jorge Castro Jul 10 '12 at 23:55

marked as duplicate by Jorge Castro, mikewhatever, bodhi.zazen, izx, jokerdino♦ Jul 11 '12 at 0:57

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whenever you log into SSH, you are the user that you logged in with. like

ssh azaqiel@server

logs me in as azaqiel. azaqiel has to know the password for sudo usage, or be in /etc/sudoers before azaqiel can edit files that are not owned by azaqiel. files in /etc/init.d/ are almost always owned by root.

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