Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern Unix-like command line, sudo and su, are being rewritten in the modern language Rust as part of a wider effort to get critical but aging infrastructure ...

The sudoers file can provide detailed control over user privileges, but with very little effort, you can still get a lot of benefit from sudo. In this post, we’re going to look at some simple ways to ...

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Sudo is well known for its ability to provide very limited scope superuser privileges to otherwise normal users on Unix systems. Thus the name “sudo” (for “superuser do”). Users who run commands with ...

Linux and Mac OS X users and system administrators, and long before them, Unix users and sysadmins, have used sudo as an essential computer management tool. With it, users are given the power to make ...

Attackers looking to exploit a previously disclosed and apparently still unpatched bug in sudo, a Unix-based Linux command found in most Apple OS X builds have gotten a little more help this week.

A small workaround exists in OS X for the use of the "sudo" command requiring authentication after 10 minutes of nonuse. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...