The sudo command lets users elevate their privileges to run admin tasks. But it's far from perfect. These tips can help.

Learn how to add, delete, and grant sudo privileges to users in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux.

Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...

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

In Linux systems, including Debian 12, the sudo group grants users the ability to execute administrative commands. This provides them with the privileges to install, update, and delete software, ...

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 as ...

Vulnerabilities recently discovered by Microsoft make it easy for people with a toehold on many Linux desktop systems to quickly gain root system rights— the latest elevation of privileges flaw to ...

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. This change will come with the release of the 2020.1 ...

Alpine Linux Docker images available via the Docker Hub contained a critical flaw allowing attackers to authenticate on systems using the root user and no password. For three years, some Alpine Linux ...

Kali Linux 2020.1 was released today by the Kali Linux team at Offensive Security with a new Kali Single Installer image for all desktop environments and a previously announced move to a non-root ...