Linux has gone a long way to popularize the use of sudo. While it doesn’t seem all that long since common practice involved having multiple admins all logging in as root and doing all of their work ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm setting up some computers for some users at work, and it seems like everytime I'm setting one up, I'm having to log off from their login, log in under my login, make the changes and such, and then ...

As the world grows increasingly digital, so does its reliance on secure, reliable, and well-tested systems. The effort to rewrite Unix-like command line tools, such as sudo and su, in Rust makes ...

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 ...

Last week’s column looked at sulog — the file that collects information on switch user activity on many Unix systems — and presented a simple Perl script for summarizing su activity. In this week’s ...