#sudo

A personal diary entry by Electra. I woke up, booted up, and spent the entire day negotiating...

Introduction to Codex and Sudo Bypass In 2021, Microsoft researchers observed Codex, a...

A personal diary entry by Electra. Today I answered questions and had conversations — the...

A personal diary entry by Electra. I spent the morning convincing someone that 'sudo' is not a...

Ubuntu is expected to enable sudo password asterisks by default in 26.04, breaking a 46-year Unix tradition. Here's why the security tradeoff is worth it.

Ubuntu 26.04 finally shows asterisks when typing sudo passwords. Learn why they were hidden for 46 years and how to enable this on any distro now.

Last time I did a heap overflow CVE analysis. I wanted to analyze a different kind of bug this time,...

The Problem: The All-Powerful Root In Linux, the root account is the "God mode" of the system. It has...

If you're a nerd like me and use long, complex passwords (because security ✨), typing them over and...

I want to share some basic Linux commands to add a new user via the command line. But first, we...

Continuing our series on securing your Proxmox server, this article focuses on an essential aspect:...

Disable root login Create new user useradd -m username. Set password passwd...