A close encounter between a Russian Su-35 and a U.S. F-16 over the Alaskan approaches has pushed a long-running cat-and-mouse ...

Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern Unix-like command line, sudo and su, are being rewritten in the modern language Rust as part of a wider effort to get critical but aging infrastructure ...

As the world grows increasingly digital, so does its reliance on secure, reliable, and well-tested systems. The effort to rewrite Unix-like command line tools, such as sudo and su, in Rust makes ...

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 Russian “package,” which included armed Su-35 Flanker-E fighters, was intercepted on two consecutive days in international airspace west of Alaska. On Feb. 18, 2025 the North American Aerospace ...

One of the things that every Unix systems administrator needs to know to properly manage a Unix system is who else is using the powers of root. Without that knowledge, it is not possible to be ...