I'm running Debian 3.1 and I see the following entries in /var/log/auth.log. I don't have any cron jobs added that would be doing this by design, so I'm unsure what's ...

Once you install Debian to function as a server, you might notice it's missing something important--sudo. Jack Wallen walks you through the process of installing sudo and enabling it for user. Debian ...

According to what i have read online, debian should, in this case, install sudo by default and the make the first user an administrative user.

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 ...