What a Linux root user can do - and 8 ways you should absolutely never use it ...

For many cloud apps, administrators are given a super admin account credential, also known as the root account, which allows wide-reaching administrative access to the account. These super admin ...

Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux. Using the root account could lead to disaster. Sudo is the preferred method of gaining elevated privileges. When I first started using Linux ...

AWS has introduced a new capability for AWS Organizations members, allowing administrators to centrally manage and restrict root-user access across multiple AWS accounts. This update enhances security ...

For most of my tech life, root@domainname.* was a given. I recently tried to send a message to the root account at a domain that was sending me reminders for a healthcare appointment in a different ...

Normally you can scp a file as root on a machine if you allow users to ssh as root. I'd prefer to disable ssh directly as root since its yet another attack vector we can shut off.<BR><BR>sudo and su ...