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 - ...

Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C ...

A new Linux vulnerability, known as 'Looney Tunables' and tracked as CVE-2023-4911, enables local attackers to gain root privileges by exploiting a buffer overflow weakness in the GNU C Library's ...

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 ...

Vulnerabilities recently discovered by Microsoft make it easy for people with a toehold on many Linux desktop systems to quickly gain root system rights— the latest elevation of privileges flaw to ...

You need to be root in Linux to edit grub.conf. During a typical RedHat installation, it will prompt you for a password for root and prompt you to create a normal ...