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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, aka ...