Sudo Mastery (IT Mastery)

These are individually pretty cheap books from the author that really do a good job walking you through the details of each Nix subsystem they're dealing with. I’ve read his SSH Mastery _after_ doing a bit of SSH and reading most of the original O Reilly SSH Shell. Purchased SUDO from it.There’s a lot of wisdom distilled here. Like, don’t wildcard yourself into security holes. This book WON'T make you a master, but it will give you a _very_ good base to develop some craft from.

MWL's books are all very readable and human and this is not exception. If you need a quick reference, nothing beats the man pages. But if you need context to appreciate the role of sudo in the Unix universe in a format that is not going to exhaust your brain, this is the book to read.

MW Lucas is a great author. His writing (in any of his books) is concise and accurate. The subtle hints of sarcasm and humor without being biased is hilarious.

If you are the only person using a server, you don't need to spend much time with sudo. However, once you have multiple administrators with who have specific roles (OS, backup, application, database, etc.), then sudo is an essential tool to control the chaos, and allows review of who did what command to reconfigure the production server. This book is chock full of examples and *reasons* why to do (or not do) something. The author has a long history of writing tech books on essential components of *nix systems.

El libro es bueno y el autor controla el tema de administración de sistemas, eso es evidente.Sin embargo, la lectura se hace lenta porque el autor se enreda y quiere opinar continuamente.

This is a great book. I'm a big fan of Lucas's writing, and this book brings his characteristic sarcastic humor and dry wit. If you're also a fan of all this, you'll enjoy this book as much as his others.Humor aside, Lucas also delivers the technical goods in this book, as usual. I'm an experienced developer, but fairly junior on my path to Sysadmin enlightenment. Sudo configuration is completely new ground for me – but this book was still totally approachable and an easy read, consistent with all Lucas's books.That said, I did find this one more confusing than his others. That owes to the subject matter and it's inherent complexity – but unlike his books on Networking, SSH, and TLS, this one definitely contained a few things which I simply didn't understand at all. That's not Lucas's fault, it's Unix/Linux's fault. But be aware that although this books is great, it does assume a level of background that at times you may not have.One other constructive criticism – the books suffers from a lack of layout structure. That is to say, almost every page is packed with really solid technical value and detail, but it's almost all buried within the conversational-style prose (i.e. the long strings we call sentences and paragraphs). There are lots of bolded code blocks for various terminal commands, but he buries just countless details in the text, which I really wish were called out in tables, summaries, or other visual layout techniques to make them easier to scan and reference later (things like command line arguments/flags, config settings, etc.).Final word: This is a great book (like all Lucas writes), but it coves so much ground and buries so many valuable details deep in the conversational "stream of knowledge brain dump" text, that I'm gonna have to re-read this book at least twice more to really absorb it all (and so might you).