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Sudo Command Update: Enhanced Security and Auditing Features

Calendar May 14, 2020 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Have you heard about the new release of the open-source Linux command sudo? It comes with improved auditing, logging, and security.

Sudo is one of the most powerful and dangerous tools in the Unix or Linux system administrator's toolbox. With it, an ordinary user can run commands just as if he or she were the superuser or any other user. Now, One Identity, the company behind the utility, has released a new version of sudo, called sudo 1.9, which gives it better auditing, logging, and security than ever before.