Learn how to add, delete, and grant sudo privileges to users in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux.

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

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Blindly executing commands can also reinforce bad habits, preventing users from learning the reasoning behind each step.

As someone who has traveled the bug-riddled Linux road countless times, let me tell you that invoking root-level access for ...

Two Copeland controllers, electronic control systems used in refrigerators and HVAC applications, were carrying almost a dozen vulnerabilities that could have been exploited for privilege escalation ...

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Built under the Trifecta Tech Foundation’s “Privilege Boundary” initiative, sudo‑rs is a from-scratch implementation of sudo and su created in Rust, a language celebrated for its compile-time ...

There is a critical security flaw in the Linux tool "sudo" and makes unprivileged users "root", the system administrator, in no time at all. The reason for the malaise: a bug in the chroot function of ...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two local privilege escalation (LPE) flaws that could be exploited to gain root privileges on machines running major Linux distributions. "These modern ...