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Root Privilege Commands
Chapter 6: Root Privilege
Commands
Root privilege commands should only be used by a system
administrator under the direction of a Metrobility support
engineer to customize or recover the system and internal file
system.
Caution: These commands can render the system
inoperable.
The default password is: root
Command: cp Description: Copy files or directories.
Syntax: cp [-i] <source> <target>
cp [-irR] <source1 ... sourceN> <directory>
Options: -i Prompt before overwriting an existing file.
r See R.
-R Recursive. If any source files are direc-
tories, copy the directory along with its files.
Destination must be a directory.
Note: As a security feature, password files will not be
valid if they are copied into the /etc directory.
Example: Console>ls
acl hosts motd passwd
Console>cp motd motw
Console>ls
acl hosts motd motw passwd