One of the things that every Unix systems administrator needs to know to properly manage a Unix system is who else is using the powers of root. Without that knowledge, it is not possible to be ...

Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern Unix-like command line, sudo and su, are being rewritten in the modern language Rust as part of a wider effort to get critical but aging infrastructure ...

Last week’s column looked at sulog — the file that collects information on switch user activity on many Unix systems — and presented a simple Perl script for summarizing su activity. In this week’s ...