Since some of the most powerful commands require Root permission, Sudo’s ability to execute them securely is extremely important for system security. Sudo also allows users to become root without having access
Tom has been given fullsudorights. He can do anything thatroot---or anyone else in thesudogroup---can do. That might grant him more power than you're happy to hand over. Sometimes there's a requirement for a user to perform a function that requiresrootprivileges, but there isn't a ...
To re-enable the sudo password prompt for specific commands, you need to remove or comment out the corresponding lines in the sudoers file. This will restore the default behavior, prompting the user for their password when executing the specified commands with sudo. Here's how you can do it:...
Not just Linux commands, you can apply this method to run scripts as well. Let us say you want to run backup script that is saved in the$HOMEdirectory of another user. You can simply run the script from the current user as other user by using this command: $ sudo -u kumar bash -c...