Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft continues to embrace Linux and make Windows a home for developers. Microsoft continues to embrace Linux ...

Sudo is one of the most powerful and dangerous tools in the Unix or Linux system administrator's toolbox. With it, an ordinary user can run commands just as if he or she were the superuser or any ...

Microsoft opened its arms to Linux during the Windows 10 era, inventing an entire virtualized subsystem to allow users and developers to access a real-deal Linux command line without leaving the ...

Microsoft this week announced Sudo for Windows, which can be set up in the Windows 11 Insider Program preview build 26052. Sudo ("Super User Do) is the command-line interface typically found on Linux ...

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Linux users should immediately patch a serious vulnerability to the sudo command that, if exploited, can allow unprivileged users gain root privileges on the host machine. Called Baron Samedit, the ...

Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern Unix-like command line, sudo and su, are being rewritten in the modern language Rust as part of a wider effort to get critical but aging infrastructure ...

Authenticate in the macOS Terminal with Touch ID is much quicker than typing your password every time. Edit a simple file in Terminal using the nano editor to enable Touch ID for all sudo commands.