The bug allows users to bypass privilege restrictions to execute commands as root. A vulnerability in Sudo, a core command utility for Linux, could allow a user to execute commands as a root user even ...

ZDNET key takeaways Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux.Using the root account could lead to ...

There's a lot of hubbub out there now about a security hole in the Unix/Linux family's sudo command. Sudo is the command, which enables normal users to run commands as if they were the root user, aka ...

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 - ...

There was a time when real system administrators just logged into Unix systems as root. But as we all know — with great power comes great responsibility. It’s too easy to do terrible things when you ...

我刚刚执行了一个新的ubuntu安装,我在lsof中看到以下内容： userA@az1:~$lsof COMMAND PID TID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME init 1 root cwd ...

Linux might sound scary for first-time Linux users, but actually, it isn’t. Linux is a bunch of open-source Unix operating systems based on Linux Kernel. These operating systems are called Linux ...

IT之家 6 月 18 日消息，安全研究人员发现了两种新的本地权限提升漏洞（LPE），攻击者可以利用这些漏洞完全控制系统，或获得 root 权限，影响主要的 Linux 发行版。这一发现引起了全球系统管理员的警惕。 第一个漏洞，编号 CVE-2025-6018，存在于 openSUSE Leap 15 和 ...

A user posted on the Arch Linux forums in early January wondering why their laptop wouldn’t boot at all after running a simple ‘rm -rf –no-preserve-root /’ command. It’s fairly stupid to run such a ...