Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...

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

The chpasswd command allows admins to change account passwords by piping username and password combinations to it. This can be done one-account-at-a-time or by putting all of the accounts to be ...

How to change a root password in a Docker image Your email has been sent You’ve probably already read that some Docker images were released with null passwords ...

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 ...