ZDNET key takeaways Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux.Using the root account could lead to ...

Linux 101: How to give users sudo privileges on Ubuntu and Red Hat-based Linux distributions Your email has been sent Most users on your Linux machines might be non-admins who use services and ...

Keep your Linux system running fast with simple maintenance commands to clean packages, clear logs, manage startup apps, and ...

The sudo command is a very important command on Linux systems. You might say that it allows users to run privileged commands without logging in as root, and that is true.

Qualys said the vuln gives any local user root access to systems running the most popular version of Sudo. A doozy of a bug that could allow any local user on most Linux or Unix systems to gain root ...

From the beginning of the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux series I have had readers suggest solutions for various issues that involve the command line. In general, I prefer to work with the graphical ...

Taiwanese hardware vendor QNAP warns customers to secure their Linux-powered network-attached storage (NAS) devices against a high-severity Sudo privilege escalation vulnerability. The flaw (tracked ...

Most Linux distributions are considerably more secure than Windows out of the box. There are many reasons for that, including the inherent user and file permissions structure, the addition of ...