ITworld.com – If you have tried to give away any files lately on any of your Unix systems (i.e., without first becoming root), you may have been surprised to learn that you can’t. On most Unix systems ...

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...

Poettering cites security as the most important reason for his modern sudo alternative. sudo is a SUID binary, i.e. a program that - when started from a user context - runs with root rights. It then ...