How to Run a Command on Startup in Linux. One of Linux's strengths as an operating system is its ability to be configured and tweaked to suit your tastes. Using the command line allows you to ...

A vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux sudo command that could allow unprivileged users to execute commands as root. Thankfully, this vulnerability only works in non-standard ...

You can easily set up a Linux command that keeps trying until it succeeds. Let's look at how to loop your way to success. If you want to run a command on a Linux system until it succeeds, there ...

The eval command allows you to run the contents of variables as commands and can be very useful -- especially in scripts.

By running apt-get through sudo, the user is granted temporary admin privileges and can successfully issue the commands. What about users not in the admin group?

SEE: How to Quickly Give Users sudo Privileges in Linux (TechRepublic) Running a command that requires sudo But what if you need to run a command that requires sudo privileges on a remote server?