Knowing which sudo or su command to run is important. Jack Wallen demystifies these two Linux admin tools. If you’re a new Linux admin, you probably at least know about sudo. Sudo stands for “super ...

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 ...

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 ...