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 ...

Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux. Using the root account could lead to disaster. Sudo is the preferred method of gaining elevated privileges. When I first started using Linux ...

UPDATE [November 29, 2017]: Apple has released a security update for macOS High Sierra users. Original article below. A bug in the latest versions of macOS High Sierra allows users to create a root ...

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 ...

(note: I've searched the forums, I've been googling, I've tried it all with no luck, I wouldn't post in here otherwise, ok?)<P>Right, I'd like to rename my root account on my slack box.. How does one ...

Clearly the proper way to manage root accounts is to change them regularly and use a distributed system, be it homegrown or commercial, to ensure changes are pushed out in a timely fashion, and a ...

While rarely needed, the root user can be enabled to give full and unrestricted access to an OS X system for troubleshooting purposes. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

In this post, we will show you how to disable or enable the hidden super built-in Administrator account in Windows 11/10 using the command line. It is similar to the root account in Unix. In Windows ...

An embarrassingly large security flaw has been discovered on Macs running the newest version of High Sierra, version 10.13.1. Apparently, any person can force the creation of a root account simply by ...

Even though the root account is "disabled" by default in OS X, you will still see many system processes running under this account when you open Activity Monitor, which might be confusing to some ...

Static root credentials left in limited Unified Communications Manager builds could let attackers gain full control over enterprise communications systems. Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO) has patched a max ...