Are there cloud-specific privilege management services that complement or replace sudo?

Jun 6, 2013 ... You don't need sudo, as you are already logged in as root. Regarding the apt-get - Angstrom in an embedded linux distribution and apt-get isn't implemented ... Jan 12, 2023 ... sudo -v is exactly for this. From man 8 sudo : -v , --validate Update the user's cached credentials, authenticating the user if necessary. Feb 21, 2018 ... The sudo approach is safer than allowing access to the root account itself. They say that with the root account you could break your entire system with just a ... Re: Why "SUDO" - what does it mean? ... redhawk wrote: Sudo is the like running applications with elevated administrator rights in Windows XP, Vista, 7 because ... Jun 8, 2023 ... Using the Linux sudo command. Sudo gives us safe elevated privileges when we want to run important commands. It might be THE most used and ... Sudo configuration files are a good way to implement privilege access management (PAM) in Linux. Through rules defined within these files, administrators can ... Apr 23, 2024 ... Sudo means to run something as an administrator on that machine. If you're already logged in as root then it's not required since all commands ... Mar 25, 2023 ... sudo needs your user password, not root password. “ computer users can be divided into 2 categories: Those who have lost data ...and those who have not lost data ... Aug 8, 2014 ... No, not in my opinion. It has no practical advantage over allowing them to su except they don't need the root password to do it. Apr 30, 2014 ... The command is run with an environment similar to the one a user would receive at log in. The Command Environment section in the sudoers(5) ...