{"id":18618,"date":"2020-05-14T02:13:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/securing-linuxs-master-sysadmin-command-sudo.html"},"modified":"2020-05-14T02:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:13:02","slug":"securing-linuxs-master-sysadmin-command-sudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/securing-linuxs-master-sysadmin-command-sudo.html","title":{"rendered":"Securing Linux’s master sysadmin command: Sudo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudo<\/a> is one of the most powerful and dangerous tools in the Unix or Linux system administrator’s toolbox. With it, an ordinary user can run commands just as if he or she were the superuser or any other user. Now, One Identity<\/a>, the company behind the utility, has released a new version of sudo, called\u00a0sudo 1.9<\/a>, which gives it better auditing, logging, and security than ever before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sudo, thanks in no small part to Randall Munroe’s famous xkcd cartoon<\/a>, is famous. It’s also infamous in some circles because it is so easy to make system-destroying blunders such as the classic:<\/p>\n

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$ sudo rm -rf \/<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That can destroy<\/em> an entire server’s worth of data.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But, in the right hands, it’s invaluable. As Stan Lee wrote, “With great power comes great responsibility.”<\/p>\n

Thanks to the new sudo changes, it will be harder — but still not impossible — for wet-behind-the-ears developers to still make mistakes. This new “risk-aware” sudo comes with new security and management measures\u00a0<\/p>\n

These include:\u00a0<\/p>\n