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 ...

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 - ...

The person with the highest privilege level on a Unix/Linux computer. The root user, or just plain "root" is the "superuser" in the Unix world just as an "administrator" is the "superuser" for Windows ...

There is no way to "make an account root"; there is only the one root account and the accounts that are permitted to sudo. mat catastrophe's procedure will only make the su terminal command work; it ...

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