The sudoers file can provide detailed control over user privileges, but with very little effort, you can still get a lot of benefit from sudo. In this post, we’re going to look at some simple ways to ...

I recently rebuilt and upgraded a server to Debian testing, and I've got an issue doing X11 forwarding over SSH (Win7 client using Putty and Xming if that makes any difference) -- specifically, any ...

OK, it looks like you need to employ some extra privilege. In general, you can’t write to a system log file with your user account. Let’s try that again with sudo. The response to the first of the ...