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 ...

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 ...

I'm trying to get my vmail user to run several commands with root privs without entering a password. I thought this should be easy enough, but am still being asked for a password when running a ...

The 'sudo' keyword in Unix and Linux allows users to execute certain commands with special-access privileges that cannot otherwise run on a given machine by a user with a lower level of clearance.

There's a lot of hubbub out there now about a security hole in the Unix/Linux family's sudo command. Sudo is the command, which enables normal users to run commands as if they were the root user, aka ...

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 ...