When you open a WSL Distro on your Windows computer, it signs you into a particular default user account. You can change this default user if you want. You need to open Command Prompt or Powershell ...

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 - ...

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