ZDNET key takeaways Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux.Using the root account could lead to ...

Hi guys, me again. I fairly recently redid my install of Gentoo on my little server. Now my original install had a really nice logging set up. What it would do is in /var/log it would have all manner ...

Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...

If you’ve used Linux from the early days (or, like me, started with Unix), you didn’t have to learn as much right away and as things have become more complex, you can kind of pick things up as you go.

Security researchers have discovered a ludicrously simple way to hack into a number of Linux distributions: Just tap the backspace key 28 times in a row. A team from the Cybersecurity Group at ...