Also: The best Linux distros for beginners With sudo in place, users no longer had to change to the root user or log in to that account to run administrative commands, such as installing software.

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 ...

Sudo is a utility that allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run commands in the context of any other user – including as root – without ...