The root directory, or root folder, describes the uppermost folder on a hard drive partition. If your business computer contains a single partition, this partition will be the "C" drive and contains ...

Giving users unlimited root access is dangerous. Fortunately, you can opt to implement the sudo tool, which will provide limited root access to trusted users. Read on as Jim McIntyre explains the ins ...

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 - ...