Nikhil’s Engineering Notebook

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Articles tagged with #security

PAM in a Nutshell: How Pluggable Authentication Modules Work🔑
A simple, beginner-friendly guide to PAM — the framework that powers authentication in Linux tools like sudo, ssh, and login.
Sep 20, 20253 min read14
sudo-rs in a Nutshell: Why Ubuntu is Switching to Rust-Powered sudo 🚀
A quick, friendly dive into sudo-rs — a Rust reimplementation of the classic sudo command that’s safer, modern, and now shipping by default in Ubuntu
Sep 18, 20253 min read74