Of all the Linux commands, rm is notorious. It's easy to completely wipe out your system with one mislaid rm command as root.

There is a serious security vulnerability in the firmware of many ASUS routers that allows unauthenticated command execution. The bug may be present in all current versions of the router firmware, and ...

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 ...

Today’s hint is for those of you who, like me, use Terminal often and occasionally have a need to do things there as the root user. If you don’t know what Terminal is, don’t know what the root user is ...

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 ...

A user posted on the Arch Linux forums in early January wondering why their laptop wouldn’t boot at all after running a simple ‘rm -rf –no-preserve-root /’ command. It’s fairly stupid to run such a ...

How to change a root password in a Docker image Your email has been sent You’ve probably already read that some Docker images were released with null passwords ...

GRUB: it's neither larva, fast food nor the loveliest of acronyms in the GNU herd of free software. Rather, GRUB is the GNU GRand Unified Bootloader. And, it is truly the greatest loader for booting ...

A vulnerability in D-link firmware powering multiple routers with VPN passthrough functionality allows attackers to take full control of the device. The bug affects router models DSR-150, DSR-250/N, ...

Root's hundred is his eighth since the start of 2021 in 19 Tests Second Test, Kensington Oval, Barbados (day one): England 244-3: Root 119*, Lawrence 91 West Indies Yet to bat Scorecard Joe Root ...