A vulnerability in the Linux sudo command has been discovered that could allow unprivileged users to execute commands as root. Thankfully, this vulnerability only works in non-standard configurations ...

One clear benefit of sudo is that users don’t have to remember another password to be able to run commands as root. Besides, you probably don’t want them to have general root access. It’s also ...

There was a time when real system administrators just logged into Unix systems as root. But as we all know — with great power comes great responsibility. It’s too easy to do terrible things when you ...

The bug allows users to bypass privilege restrictions to execute commands as root. A vulnerability in Sudo, a core command utility for Linux, could allow a user to execute commands as a root user even ...

As someone who has traveled the bug-riddled Linux road countless times, let me tell you that invoking root-level access for ...

There is a serious security vulnerability in the firmware of many ASUS routers that allows unauthenticated command execution. The bug may be present in all current versions of the router firmware, and ...

I need to run a command as root that copies a bunch of files around, stops a process, restarts the process, deletes some things, and copies some other things around.<BR><BR>I'd like my boss to just ...

Today’s hint is for those of you who, like me, use Terminal often and occasionally have a need to do things there as the root user. If you don’t know what Terminal is, don’t know what the root user is ...

How to change a root password in a Docker image Your email has been sent You’ve probably already read that some Docker images were released with null passwords ...

Cisco has fixed a maximum severity vulnerability that allows attackers to run commands with root privileges on vulnerable Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) access points that provide ...