Servers and workstations that have been provisioned/installed from Alpine Linux Docker images are now at risk of being hijacked by attackers who can authenticate using the root user and no password.

The Kali Linux distribution is going to switch to a new security model by defaulting to a non-root user starting with the upcoming 2020.1 release.

Conclusion Effective management of user accounts and permissions is crucial for maintaining the security and efficiency of Linux systems. By understanding and implementing the strategies outlined in ...

Linux is a multi-user operating system, even if you are the only person using your computer. The most basic of systems has two users: you and the superuser, which is also called root. Every file ...

It constantly modifies root account credentials so that no two Linux systems have identical credentials, preventing unauthorized users from gaining peer-level access throughout the set up.

A security researcher has discovered a seven-year-old vulnerability in several Linux distributions, which unprivileged local users could use to bypass authorisation and gain root access. The bug ...

A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication.

Sudo, the main command in Linux that allows users to run tasks, has been found to have a vulnerability that allows unauthorized users to execute commands as a root user. The vulnerability, known ...

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

The following methods can be used for resetting the root password if the root password is unknown. If you use GRUB for booting, select the system to be booted, and add 1 to the end of the kernel boot ...