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.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Add `bob` to `sudoers` File

Become root:
```
sudo -i
```
Enter the cloud_user password.
Open the sudoers file:
```
visudo
```
Add the following somewhere after the root permissions are defined:
```
bob  ALL=(ALL)  NOPASSWD: ALL
```

Allow `adam` to Use the `journalctl` Command as `root`

Open the sudoers file:
```
visudo
```
Add the following somewhere after the root permissions are defined:
```
adam  ALL=(root)    NOPASSWD: /bin/journalctl
```

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Understanding Privilege Escalation in CentOS

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