Special user account used for system administration
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In computing, the superuser is a special user account used for system administration. Depending on the operating system (OS), the actual name of this account might be root, administrator, admin or supervisor. In some cases, the actual name of the account is not the determining factor; on Unix-like systems, for example, the user with a user identifier (UID) of zero is the superuser, regardless of the name of that account;[1] and in systems which implement a role-based security model, any user with the role of superuser (or its synonyms) can carry out all actions of the superuser account.
The principle of least privilege recommends that most users and applications run under an ordinary account to perform their work, as a superuser account is capable of making unrestricted, potentially adverse, system-wide changes.
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In computing, the superuser is a special user account used for system administration. Depending on the operating system (OS), the actual name of this...
security privileges of another user, by default the superuser. It originally stood for "superuser do", as that was all it did, and it is its most common...
root"). This is the home directory of the 'root' superuser. On many Mac and iOS systems this superuser home directory is /var/root. Filesystem Hierarchy...
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to a power user or administrator, who has knowledge of, and access to, superuser accounts; for example, an end luser who cannot be trusted with a root...
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printers, and other peripherals. This method, among others, also enables the superuser to delegate some administrative tasks to normal users, similar to the...
The Unix superuser has access to all directories on the file system, and hence can access home directories of all users. The superuser's home directory...
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the owner of the file or the superuser (the "User" attributes) and two attributes that could only be set by the superuser (the "System" attributes): (User)...
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can range from anonymous login (guest) privileges to superuser (root) privileges. Guest and superuser accounts are the two extremes, as individual access...
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for files, one for directories. For files, particularly executables, superuser could tag these as to be retained in main memory, even when their need...
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Unix-like system means that the daemon would historically have to have superuser privileges in order to open them. For various security reasons this used...
process and affect the permissions for sending signals. A process without superuser privileges may signal another process only if the sender's ruid or euid...
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