A flaw in sudo was just announced yesterday. Users with the ability to run a command as another user may be able to get around this restriction and run commands as root.
The latest version of the Linux kernel cleans out nearly 100K lines of code and adds file encryption and the Berkeley Packet Filter.
What can your Linux system tell you about the Linux kernel it's using? Let's do a little probing and see.
Managing Linux disks and the file systems that reside on them is something of an art – from setup to partitioning to monitoring performance.