New Linux admins need to know how to give and take sudo privileges from users. Jack Wallen shows you how on both Ubuntu- and Red Hat-based Linux distributions.

Removing sudo rights from CentOS (top) and Ubuntu (bottom). How to create a new user with admin privileges on Linux Your email has been sent If you’re a Linux system admin, you probably find ...

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 ...

Two flaws, one undetected for over a decade, allow unintended root access on Ubuntu and Debian systems, prompting urgent patching across enterprise environments.

Qualys said the vuln gives any local user root access to systems running the most popular version of Sudo.

The flaw is that sudo's the matching code would only check against the list of pseudo-commands if the user-specified command also contained no slashes. As a result, if the user ran "sudo ./sudoedit" ...

Security researchers have discovered a critical elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerability in a popular Linux utility, and another that has been lying hidden for over a decade. Sudo is a privileged ...

For example, a user might run a sudo command that installs Firefox on Ubuntu, since installing software system-wide usually requires administrative privileges.