When I first started using Linux in 1997, there was one inevitability: at some point, you would have to either log in as root or switch to the root account. I did it. A lot. Also: Do you need ...

A newly-discovered flaw in macOS High Sierra — Apple’s latest iteration of its operating system — allows anyone with local (and, apparently in some cases, remote) access to the machine to log in as ...

Is the default username on any of your internet-exposed remote services root, admin, user or test? If so, it's already being targeted by more than half of the automated, remote hack attacks seen in ...

A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication. Sudo is a Unix program ...

I have a custom certificate I want to install on a W2K image for our local intranet. I import it into the trusted root store logged on as admin, but any other user I log on as doesn't have the cert.