Almost all of the user management commands require root access. The superuser, often referred to as root, can do anything anywhere, regardless of any permissions. So how does a humble user do anything ...

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 - ...

The bug allows users to bypass privilege restrictions to execute commands as root. A vulnerability in Sudo, a core command utility for Linux, could allow a user to execute commands as a root user even ...