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A new vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux Sudo program let unprivileged users can run the command as root by specifying the user ID -1 or 4294967295. Sudo (Superuser Do) program in Linux is responsible to allocate the security privileges to run commands for normal users and by default for Superusers. The vulnerability affected […]
Short Bytes: Many of you might be using sudo and su in terminal every day to accomplish different tasks. While sudo runs a single command with root privileges, su launches another shell instance with the privileges of the intended user. Both, sudo and su, are use to grant root privileges to the users in different manners. A Linux user […]
Short Bytes: Sudo command is one of the most used tools by Linux system administrators. Windows users can use runas, a command with similar functionality on Windows Vista and above. Runas command allows you to run specific programs and tools with permissions different than the user’s current permissions. In Unix-like operating systems, the root account isn’t configured by […]
Short Bytes: At times, it is necessary to perform tasks with root privileges, there are a few solutions for this, some more secure than the others. This article will outline those solutions with an emphasis on sudo and its broad ability that is virtually unknown to many system administrators. When in need of running a […]