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Understanding Privilege Escalation in CentOS
As a system administrator, most of your work can be done as your specific user. There are many tasks, however, that need to be done as the `root` user to work correctly. In this hands-on lab, you'll be able to practice different methods of privilege escalation.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Add `bob` to `sudoers` File
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Become
root
:sudo -i
Enter the
cloud_user
password. -
Open the
sudoers
file:visudo
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Add the following somewhere after the
root
permissions are defined:bob ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
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Challenge
Allow `adam` to Use the `journalctl` Command as `root`
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Open the
sudoers
file:visudo
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Add the following somewhere after the
root
permissions are defined:adam ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /bin/journalctl
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