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

The sudoers file can provide detailed control over user privileges, but with very little effort, you can still get a lot of benefit from sudo. In this post, we’re going to look at some simple ways to ...

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 ...

OK, it looks like you need to employ some extra privilege. In general, you can’t write to a system log file with your user account. Let’s try that again with sudo. The response to the first of the ...

If you use sudo to run commands as root, you've probably run into “permission denied” problems when only part of a pipeline or part of a command is running with root permissions. This fails with ...

T he usermod command is a tool for updating details about an existing user account in your system. It's kind of like editing ...

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

Many Linux commands can do more than you might think. The usermod command is one such command, and it can be very handy.

What just happened? Microsoft has introduced a handy new feature in the latest Windows 11 Insider build – Sudo for Windows. Sudo, which stands for "superuser do," is a command typically found in Linux ...

A common use for the ip command is checking what network devices are connected to your Linux system. You can use this ...