OK, it looks like you need to employ some extra privilege. In general, you can’t write to a system log file with your user account. Let’s try that again with sudo. The response to the first of the ...

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 ...

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. Debian ...

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 ...

Microsoft appears to be bringing a well-known feature from macOS and Linux: the almighty sudo command. Sudo, which stands for "substitute user, do," allows for executing commands with elevated ...

Microsoft has made a lot of improvements to Windows 11 over the years, and sometimes they're a bit more subtle. Sudo for Windows is one that might have flown under the radar, but it's an incredibly ...

What just happened? Microsoft has introduced a handy new feature in the latest Windows 11 Insider build – Sudo for Windows. Sudo, which stands for "superuser do," is a command typically found in Linux ...

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