There was a time when, to use a computer, you merely turned it on and were greeted by a command prompt. Nowadays, most operating systems offer a security model with multiple users. Typically, the ...

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 ...

Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in widely deployed Linux components that could allow unprivileged users to gain root access across popular distributions. The first is a local privilege ...

A new Linux NetFilter kernel flaw has been discovered, allowing unprivileged local users to escalate their privileges to root level, allowing complete control over a system. The CVE-2023-32233 ...

Attackers can now gain root privileges on millions of Linux systems — by exploiting an easy-to-exploit, newly discovered buffer overflow flaw in a common library used on most major distributions of ...

In the Linux Journal article “Implementing Encrypted Home Directories” (August 2003), I described how to encrypt home directories transparently. This article describes how to implement another ...

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 - ...