There's a new release of the open-source Linux command sudo, and it comes with improved auditing, logging, and security.

There's a lot of hubbub out there now about a security hole in the Unix/Linux family's sudo command. Sudo is the command, which enables normal users to run commands as if they were the root user ...

A vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux sudo command that could allow unprivileged users to execute commands as root. Thankfully, this vulnerability only works in non-standard ...

As someone who has traveled the bug-riddled Linux road countless times, let me tell you that invoking root-level access for ...

A high-severity vulnerability in sudo has been patched in a number of Linux distributions; the flaw allows local attackers to elevate privileges to root.

Some helpful hints for using sudo — the command that allows admins to administer user system privileges ...

A major vulnerability impacting a large chunk of the Linux ecosystem has been patched today in Sudo, an app that allows admins to delegate limited root access to other users. As reported by ZDNet ...

Sudo in a Windows environment strikes me as a much narrower use case. Executing "as administrator" isn't the same privilege bump in Windows as executing "as root" in Linux.

But unlike the Linux version, which is its own separate utility, Sudo for Windows is a custom implementation designed specifically for the Windows environment.

Sudo, the main command in Linux that allows users to run tasks, has been found to have a vulnerability that allows unauthorized users to execute commands as a root user. The vulnerability, known ...