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 ...

If you get tired of typing your password for sudo, but you don't want (or don't have permissions) to put NOPASSWD in your sudoers file, you can use the following procedure to update the sudo password ...

A small workaround exists in OS X for the use of the "sudo" command requiring authentication after 10 minutes of nonuse. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

In this latest security hole, CVE-2019-18634, Apple Information Security researcher Joe Vennix discovered that if the "pwfeedback" option is enabled in your sudoers configuration file, any user, even ...

I need to log in as root on a Solaris 2.7 Sparc server but don't have the password. I do have sudo access to everything on the system. How do I use sudo to change root's password?<P>Thanks in advance ...

Giving users unlimited root access is dangerous. Fortunately, you can opt to implement the sudo tool, which will provide limited root access to trusted users. Read on as Jim McIntyre explains the ins ...

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 ...

Sudo, a utility found in dozens of Unix-like operating systems, has received a patch for a potentially serious bug that allows unprivileged users to easily obtain unfettered root privileges on ...

Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' brings new security tools to the Linux desktop. The distribution is the first to use ...