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.

Some helpful hints for using sudo — the command that allows admins to administer user system privileges ...

Once you install Debian to function as a server, you might notice it's missing something important--sudo. Jack Wallen walks you through the process of installing sudo and enabling it for user.

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.

Trying to learn how to use sudo, but i keep getting this error whenever i try:Sorry, user topsoill may not run sudo on localhost.Whats the deal with that ...

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 ...

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 ...

I would also remove the 're-run with sudo' logic completely and use a shell alias to make sure I always ran it with sudo.

A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication.