What a Linux root user can do - and 8 ways you should absolutely never use it ...

A local privilege escalation security vulnerability could allow attackers to gain root access on Ubuntu systems by exploiting a double-free memory corruption bug in GNOME's AccountsService component.

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 - ...

A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication. Sudo is a Unix program ...

The issue in the file-sharing and interop platform also affects Red Hat, SUSE Linux and Ubuntu packages. A critical severity vulnerability in the Samba platform could allow attackers to gain remote ...

cat /usr/bin/mount_music.sh #!/bin/bash mount -t cifs -o ro,username=utwig,password=sekrit,vers=3\.0 //10.13.37.137/music /mnt/music ls /usr/bin/mount_music.sh -l ...