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Start Fine-Tuning Sudo on Linux

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 25, 2012

The sudo utility is one of the workhorses of Linux, but it’s often not used as skillfully as it could be. If you’re just using sudo to provide full root access to regular users, it’s time to take a step back and fine-tune sudo to be a bit more picky.

Way back in the day, many Linux users would just su to root in order to manage packages or do other system tasks. Some folks would even just run as “root,” because it was simpler. That’s a bad habit, one that Ubuntu helped me (and probably a fair number of others) break.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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