Answer:

Some commands utilized during the collection processes require elevated privilege on the target system. This corresponds to elevation to the root account. If the username associated with the credential entry is exactly root, then no additional privilege elevation will be attempted when issuing commands. Any other username involves the use of the sudo utility to perform the elevation. The sudo utility is ubiquitous in the Linux and UNIX-class system space, and will be provided by the operating system for many systems and/or distributions.