If you’re a new Linux admin, you probably at least know about sudo. Sudo stands for “super user do” and allows standard users to take admin-level actions, such as installing software. Even though most ...

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 ...

I recently rebuilt and upgraded a server to Debian testing, and I've got an issue doing X11 forwarding over SSH (Win7 client using Putty and Xming if that makes any difference) -- specifically, any ...

One of the things that every Unix systems administrator needs to know to properly manage a Unix system is who else is using the powers of root. Without that knowledge, it is not possible to be ...