A security vulnerability in the Official Docker images based on the Alpine Linux distribution allowed for more than three years logging into the root account using a blank password. Tracked as ...

Alpine Linux Docker images distributed via the official Docker Hub portal for the past three years and a half have been using a blank (NULL) password for the root account, security researchers from ...

Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...

Linux, renowned for its robustness and security, is a powerful multi-user operating system that allows multiple people to interact with the same system resources without interfering with each other.

Despite appearing rather complex at first glance, the Linux terminal is a nifty tool for most tasks, be it installing new packages or troubleshooting the most obscure errors. That said, enabling root ...

For many cloud apps, administrators are given a super admin account credential, also known as the root account, which allows wide-reaching administrative access to the account. These super admin ...

Amazon has long recommended that you use your AWS root account as seldom as possible, using instead an IAM account. The main reason for this recommendation is of course, that the root account is ...

One of the things that every Unix systems administrator needs to know to properly manage a Unix system is who else is using the powers of root. Without that knowledge, it is not possible to be ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Keeping your Amazon account secure is a major concern for every AWS user and admin. Here are the ...

A friend of mine told me that running X as root can end up messing up a lot of stuff on a linux box. Granted, I know when I am simply running X to do whatever mundane user tasks I need to, I use my ...