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INVESTIGATION 3: INSTALLING THE GLOBAL PROTECT VPN AND CONNECTING TO MATRIX FROM YOUR VIRTUAL MACHINE
* This should succeed. If it fails, you may need to troubleshoot network issues. Ask your professor for assistance. Press '''ctrl + c''' at the same time to kill this process.
* While you can switch to the '''root''' user in your VM and install software, it's a bad practice to do this. In industry, admins are commonly granted permissions through '''sudo'''; which stands for "superuser do". This is similar to run as administrator in Windows. Sudo can be configured to allow users elevated privileges to a subset of commands, or all commands. Additionally, usage is logged to the appropriate user. This makes tracking the activity of a system with many administrator administrators a lot easier. When you initially installed RHEL, you did not set up sudo. We will do so now.
* Initially you will have to switch to root to configure sudo. Do this by issuing the command <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">su -</span>