I need to allow 3 users designated as the leaders for vaious projects the ability to add new users. Now this can be achieved using the sudo command (eg. sudo -u jsmith useradd). But for this to work ...

So this is probably a total newbie question for 'nix types - please bear with me. I have a brand-new box just set up with 2 users. One with admin privileges and one without. I have a shell script that ...

When managing your /etc/sudoers files, it’s a good idea to organize user privileges in ways that make them easier to manage over the long haul and to assign permissions based on the roles that users ...

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 ...

If you get tired of typing your password for sudo, but you don't want (or don't have permissions) to put NOPASSWD in your sudoers file, you can use the following procedure to update the sudo password ...

In this latest security hole, CVE-2019-18634, Apple Information Security researcher Joe Vennix discovered that if the "pwfeedback" option is enabled in your sudoers configuration file, any user, even ...

If you use the sudo command often to make changes to your system, you can adjust when it requires you to enter your password. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

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 ...