I need to allow 3 users designated as the leaders for vaious projects the ability to add new users. Now this can be achieved using the sudo command (eg. sudo -u jsmith useradd). But for this to work ...

One clear benefit of sudo is that users don’t have to remember another password to be able to run commands as root. Besides, you probably don’t want them to have general root access. It’s also ...

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 ...

I've added some environment variables to /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc, but when I run commands with sudo, they're not there—sudo env does not list them. Is there some other profile I should be editing ...

If you use the sudo command often to make changes to your system, you can adjust when it requires you to enter your password. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

In this latest security hole, CVE-2019-18634, Apple Information Security researcher Joe Vennix discovered that if the "pwfeedback" option is enabled in your sudoers configuration file, any user, even ...

Giving users unlimited root access is dangerous. Fortunately, you can opt to implement the sudo tool, which will provide limited root access to trusted users. Read on as Jim McIntyre explains the ins ...