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Setting the record straight on sudo

This week’s techmail is Setting the record straight on sudo which I wrote as a rebuttal to another, rather ignorant, rant against the use of sudo. I get it, the author uses Ubuntu and probably doesn’t give much thought to the fact that Ubuntu really shouldn’t use sudo the way it does, but there were [...]

Delegate privileges to users with sudo

Last week’s TechMail is about one of my favourite programs, sudo: Delegate privileges to users with sudo. It’s just a short primer on how to use sudo so for those that do know how to use it and manage /etc/sudoers, it’s nothing special, but for those who don’t, it’s a good start. Alternatively, you can [...]

Sudo rules

A friend sent me a link to cartoon about the powers of sudo. All hail sudo!