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The sudo command allows privileged users to run all or selected commands as root, but understanding how it works and doesn't work is a big help.
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux sudo command that could allow unprivileged users to execute commands as root. Thankfully, this vulnerability only works in non-standard ...
This will prompt you to type and verify a new password. Once you’ve set that, you can then expire the password with the command: sudo passwd --expire USER Where USER is the new username we created.
Sudo is one of the most powerful and dangerous tools in the Unix or Linux system administrator's toolbox. With it, an ordinary user can run commands just as if he or she were the superuser or any ...
To use "sudo," you will have to be in the "sudoers" permission group, but the good news is that many Linux distros already put the main user in this group.
$ grep sudo /etc/group sudo:x:27:shs,jdoe,peanut Assuming the standard /etc/sudoers setup, they should immediately be able to start using sudo commands once this change has been made.
New Linux admins need to know how to give and take sudo privileges from users. Jack Wallen shows you how on both Ubuntu- and Red Hat-based Linux distributions.
A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication.
As the sudo manual points out, "using ALL can be dangerous since in a command context, it allows the user to run any command on the system." In all my decades of working with Linux and Unix, I ...
Sudo, which stands for "superuser do," is a command typically found in Linux operating systems that allows users to conveniently run elevated commands from a normal user account without having to ...